Yum Extender

I have added a better way to filtering result when searching in Yum Extender.
The button bar to select between Update, Available, Installed or All can be used to limit the result of the search.

Prerelese rpms for fedora is available at:

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/timlau/yumex/

Yum Extender 3.0.2 is now released

Get the source here

Packages for Fedora & EPEL6, will be available very soon 

Changes:

I think that the yumex icon is too noisy in the menu, so I am looking for a new one.

So if you know an icon out there there will fit a package manager like yumex or you are a graphic ninja there are just waiting to make the world a better looking place, by making the coolest looking icon ever :)

 I have made some changes in the yumex project hosting.

The source git repository has move to GitHub.

The translations files has been moved by www.transifex.net/projects/p/yumex/ as translate.fedoraproject.org is beeing closed.

A new pre-release is available in http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/timlau/yumex/ for epel-6 and Fedora 13 -> 16.

Yum Extender 3.0.1 is now released.

Changes:

• Support for using sudo to start the backend, read more here
• Better support for RHEL6, Yumex 3.0.1 is now available in EPEL6
• Updated translations (Thanks to all translators
• Minor bug fixes.

RPM for F14 & 13 is available in the Fedora updates-testing repo.

I am proud to anounce the release of Yum Extender 3.0.0 with a lot of new features and optimizations.

Optimizations:

• Don't ask for root password more than one
• Make load of metadata more dynamic, first load packages lists, history, groups etc. when we need it.
• Optimized frontend package caching
• Better progress and more info when getting packages and populate the package view

Package information:

I have just added a couple of command line options to make yumex usable from automation scripts.

-X (--execute) will start processing the command line commands automatic.

-y (--yes) will skip the Transaction confirmation and the question about if you want to exit yumex after the transaction is completed. It will also hide the yumex main window

You will of cause be asked for the root password :)

I have added a new  package info page (1), showing the requirements of a package and the packages there is providing the requirement. If the provider package is green then the package is already installed.

One of the lastest feature added to Yum Extender is command line commands.

You can now give yumex actions right from the command line, like:

yumex <search words>
Will start yumex and execute a search for <search words>

yumex +foo
will start yumex and search for packages starting with foo

yumex install <foobar>
Will start yumex and add the lastest foobar package for installation to the pending action queue

This is the Yum Extender documentation

It is based on the features in current upstream, it is work in progress and not completed in any way

Check here how to get the lastest pre-release packages