[ale] Fedora 9

[William Witt]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Nope. Command not found. Fedora changed to something else in F9. F8 and earlier was pirut.
>>>
>>> Everything I found so far references package-kit, but there ain't no
>>> such command. I have also posted on the Fedora Forums, several views no
>>> replies, not even any comments from the Fedora people.
>>>       
>> pup? puplet?   (if so, don't ask me how I found that out)
>>     
>
> That's the update app.  pirut is the software install app on fedora 8. 
> I'm surprised they would have starting using something else on fedora 9.
>
>   
>> -Jim P.
>>
>>     
I just got done with a whirlwind distro trial (F9, Slack, OpenSUSE) 
before going back to Ubuntu 8.04 (KDE 4).  Release notes say that they 
replaced pruit with packagekit.  http://www.packagekit.org/pk-using.html 
says to launch it use gnome-packagekit
but do yourself a favor and get yumex.

Will
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