THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > two questions: > > what's the command to install openoffice? yum install openoffice.org (simple isn't it) > how do you figure these things out? We read the documentation in the man pages, and use the archives for the mailing list. > > a GUI, or even text/menu, driven yum "client" would be much appreciated :) Such an animal already exists. up2date in fedora has been using yum for a while now. There is also a gui called yumi, and I'm positive I'm forgetting other projects for this. yum is an extremely simple animal to use. If you want to install something, yum install foo. If you have group of things in your repository to install, yum groupinstall bar. If you just want know what a package is called, yum list "baz*". And just to keep your system updated.... yum update. About 5 minutes with the manpage will get you acquainted enough with yum to be able to do anything you want. -- Jim Perrin Central IT Ohio University
