-5

Fedora 27 comes with dnfdragora package manager GUI, which is a disgusting and cruel parody on software, developed by someone who either hates their users, or lacks basic GUI design skills taught to college students during the 1st semester. It lacks important features which yumex-dnf had, namely

  • Package Description
  • Package Update Info
  • Package Filelist
  • Package Requirements

panels, and all panels of dnfdragora are non-resizable. On top of that scrolling jumps multiple pages at a time, making the monstrosity totally useless.

I thought that replacing it with yumex-dnf should be trivial, as it is in Fedora 26, and tried installing that package. But someone in their wisdom aliased dnfdragora in the repos as yumex-dnf thus making it impossible to install from a repo ("package already installed").

Building from sources is not possible due to an error which prevents complete installation of the build, and if running yumex-dnf from where make install puts it, it does not load and just freezes on an exception screen. I do not remember the entire text of the error, and no longer have a 27 installation to reproduce, as I need to do work and had to revert to 26 on a short notice.

Can anyone please explain what can be done to wipe out dnfdragora and install yumex-dnf on a fresh installation of Fedora 27?

Improve this question
2
  • 1
    Downvoters, what's your reason? This seems like a reasonable question to me and shows research and reasons. Commented Jan 30, 2020 at 4:39
  • Downvotes are probably by people that could not have known this was answerable without the error message. With 2 years hindsight, I am upvoting, even though the lack of error message is a poor example to others. Commented Nov 27, 2020 at 11:11

5 Answers 5

Reset to default
6

This was intentional: In F27, yumex-dnf was replaced with dnfdragora because yumex-dnf has been abandoned by its authors.

What you need to do is (find someone to) take over development of yumex-dnf, and then get it re-added to Fedora.

You can also use another GUI, such as GNOME Software (the default GUI for installing packages).

You can also forgo a GUI package installer entirely. I've been using Fedora (and Red Hat before that) so long that I don't even think twice about using dnf at the command line.

Improve this answer
0
1

The old package from Fedora 26 works in the new versions. Use this command to d/l or go to koji:

dnf download --releasever=26 yumex-dnf

Download and copy files from its cpio archive to the destinations. mc can extract from cpio inside the rpm.

This is a great workaround, considering that dnfdragora pins CPU for hours for no obvious reason and is horrendously slow - much slower than yumex used to be.

Improve this answer
1

If you want the classic yumex before dnf became a thing, this is what I did on my Fedora 27 installation (as root):

mkdir YUMEX ; cd YUMEX ; wget -c https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/21/x86_64/y/yumex-3.0.17-1.fc21.noarch.rpm ; yum -y install --downloadonly --downloaddir=. yumex-3.0.17-1.fc21.noarch.rpm ;

A bunch of Fedora 27 dependencies will be downloaded. Check the ensure that you're okay with installing those. There should be 24 additional RPMs. Then...

yum -y install *.rpm

Now, you have the classic yumex. I've never actually used yumex to install packages, as I always install from the command line, but yumex has been a great tool for finding packages.

  • Yes, yes I know yum == dnf on Fedora 27; old habits...
Improve this answer
1

Easy ... On Fedora 32:

Just build yumex-dnf-4.3.3-1.fc24.src.rpm: (https://github.com/timlau/yumex-dnf/releases)

  1. Fetch most recent yumex-dnf Source RPM 
    $ wget https://github.com/timlau/yumex-dnf/releases/download/yumex-dnf-4.3.3/yumex-dnf-4.3.3-1.fc24.src.rpm
  2. Install rpmbuild 
    $ dnf install rpm-build
  3. Install build dependencies 
    $ dnf builddep ./yumex-dnf-4.3.3-1.fc24.src.rpm
  4. Build yumex-dnf RPM from Source RPM 
    $ rpmbuild --rebuild ./yumex-dnf-4.3.3-1.fc24.src.rpm RPM built under ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/yumex-dnf-4.3.3-1.fc32.noarch.rpm
  5. Install yumex-dnf from newly created rpm: 
    $ dnf install ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/yumex-dnf-4.3.3-1.fc32.noarch.rpm

That's how it's done ...

Improve this answer
-1

No need to goof around with cpio contents: you can just force rpm to install the package with --nodeps and blacklist dnfdragora in dnf.conf using exclude=dnfdragora* tag.

Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.