My X can use it, and you don't get much more non-tech than her. It's a pretty straight forward interface, lets you pick what you want to install (upgrade or remove), then click the install button, and it takes care of the rest for you. I do my upgrades via the cron job, but it is nice to use when there are new apps out there. Jim Powell L3 Communications GSI Senior Scientist/Engineer AV-8B Weapons Integration james.f.powell@xxxxxxxx <mailto:james.f.powell@xxxxxxxx> (760)939-9089 > -----Original Message----- > From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Beartooth > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:48 > To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [Yum] Re: A yum GUI exists: yumi > > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:04:13 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > > > Anyway, it's in python, it's small, it's still a little > rough around the > > edges, but... it works! > > > > http://www.cobind.com/yumgui.html > > Any comments yet from people who've used it a while?? > Matthias's post's > been up almost a month, and I don't see any (though my > newsfeed may be bad). > > Is this something a non-technoid could use? Not just a > subtechnoid, but a > non-technoid? Yum is one of the main reasons I now run Fedora > on all three > of my machines, replacing RedHat; but I'd prefer *not* ever > to use it so > much (or need to!) that my fingers would learn all the > commands, as they > have long since in Pine. > > (I tried, from submenus off the Main Menu, to automate yum to > update FC1 > nightly, but it doesn't seem to work -- yet, I hope. Maybe > when FC3 comes > out and I risk trying FC2, it'll be fixed. Maybe?) > > My impression from the cobind site generally is that I'm an echelon or > three below its intended audience; and I'm anything but impressed at > anyone running a list on yahoo instead of PHP ... > > -- > Beartooth Implacable, curmudgeonly codger learning linux > Keep in mind that I know precious little of what I'm asking about! > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >
