On 06/11/2013 03:41 PM, lee wrote:
+ There doesn't seem to be anything like aptitude Debian has that lets
you view what packages there are, what is installed, etc.. I know
there's some GUI gnome tool for that --- which, unfortunately,
doesn't seem to even come close. I'm not using gnome and I forgot
how this tool is called. It probably won't be helpful anyway.
What you're looking for is yumex, which isn't Gnome-specific AFAIK. I'm
not sure if it's the right tool for this job, but at least it's worth
looking at.
FWIW, a hung upgrade once left me with no GUI, and enough dupes that
package-cleanup --cleandupes seemed to be hanging as well. What I did,
as root, was to run package-cleanup --dupes and pipe the output into a
text file. Then, I used yum manually to get rid of some of the dupes.
Lather, rinse, repeat as time allowed, until the number of dupes got
small enough for --cleandupes to handle. Then, and only then, I started
getting X working again, on the principle of one thing at a time. It
was either that, or a complete fresh install, and I was stubborn enough
that I decided not to re-install unless I had to. And, of course, being
retired, I had plenty of time to devote to the exercise. In a
production environment, I'd never have considered spending that much
time on repair because replacement would have been far more cost effective.
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