SMART

[johnniecarcinogen]

EDIT: I made a guide here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=17348

 

After hearing alot about SMART I decided to try it out. It appearently handles many types of repositories. Here is all that it uses:

Smart supports the following repository formats as source channels:

 

• RPM repositories
  • Yast2 RPM repositories (as of Smart 0.41 original SUSE and 3rd party repositories support)
    
  • RPM System Database (locally installed packages)
    
  • APT repositories for .rpm
    
  • RPM-MD (used by YUM)
    
  • Red Carpet (used by Ximian/Novell)
    
  • RPM Header List (used by RedHat and Conectiva installation CDs, probably others)
    
  • RPM Directory (a directory with a bunch of RPMs in it, no indexing required)
    
  • URPMI (used by Mandriva)
    

  [*] DEB repositories

  • DEB System Database (locally installed packages)
    
  • APT repositories for .deb
    
  • DEB Directory (a directory with a bunch of DEBs in it, no indexing required)
    

  [*] Slackware

  • Slackware installed packages database
    
  • Slackware repositories
    

  [*] Mirrors

  • up2date (used by RedHat/Fedora)
    
  • Conectiva-style mirror description formats
    

 

So I installed the packages in using Apt:

sudo apt-get install smart smart-gui smart-addons

Then I went to the 'Smart Package Manage' entry in my menu:

I like using it in the command line too.

[bofors]

Ok, so this has nothing to do with S.M.A.R.T. hard drives:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitori...ting_Technology

[johnniecarcinogen]

no, it is the Smart Package Manager.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Package_Manager

http://labix.org/smart

[bwhsh8r]

YAST is buggy... ill give this a try later...

 

 

 

max

[alicheusz]

I highly recommended this package management system. I find it easier to use, and after make, sudo smart update I have almost every repository I need. ( I add only nvida repository and Compiz-Quinn copmiz repository) very simple very useful

[jrrjrr]

I use Smart along with kyum (a yum only GUI) in Fedora. I like Smart a lot, but sometimes it is too smart and it will crank for 10 minutes and then say I can install the 1 new package I am interested in by downgrading 37 others, uninstalling 14 more, and installing 7 additional new ones. I wish there was a way to tell it to give up looking for a way sooner and have it not be so determined to find a way no matter how complicated