CentOS - Feb 2020 - [External] Re: Installing a single rpm package from desktop/browser on CentOS 7

If I want to install a software package from a simple rpm file "the GUI 
way" on a CentOS 7 system, what am I supposed to do? If I open the file 
in the desktop, or alternatively, click on a link to a package in the 
browser and tell it to use the default app, gnome-software (I think) 
opens, but it just displays the message

Sorry, something went wrong

I mean, really? Isn't this something that should just work? It certainly 
did in past releases...

If I quite simply remove gnome-software, which I don't much like anyway, 
it looks like the handling reverts to the archive extract tool (whatever 
it's called these days), which is actually an improvement, but still not 
very helpful.

So, what's everyone else doing in these situations? Is there a 
"standard" alternative application? I know this was handle by 
gnome-packagekit for a while, but its component for installation from 
file seems to be gone. And, yeah, I know about rpm command line and yum 
and all, but shouldn't there be a "more user-friendly" way?

Thanks.

- Toralf

Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com> wrote:
> And, yeah, I know about rpm command line and yum and all, but shouldn't
> there be a "more user-friendly" way?
The command line is your friend.

Have a look at yumex. I think you'll prefer the command line, though.

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille
<yan at storm.ca>

Unfortunately, the GUI isn't quite set up to tell you what the error would
be. When you use `$ sudo yum install whatever.rpm`, the output in the shell
will often give you a clue as to what's going wrong--a missing dependency,
etc.

-- Seth.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:51 AM Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> wrote:
> Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com> wrote:
>
> > And, yeah, I know about rpm command line and yum and all, but
shouldn't
> > there be a "more user-friendly" way?
>
> The command line is your friend.
>
> Have a look at yumex. I think you'll prefer the command line, though.
>
> --
> Yves Bellefeuille
> <yan at storm.ca>
>
>
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On 21/02/2020 15:51, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com> wrote:
>
>> And, yeah, I know about rpm command line and yum and all, but
shouldn't
>> there be a "more user-friendly" way?
> The command line is your friend.
In many case, but in the situations I'm talking about here is really a 
lot more cumbersome to use. To use the command line to install a a 
package from a website, I have to

 1. Right-click
 2. Select Save Link As
 3. Enter filename/directory
 4. Open a terminal
 5. Remember where I put the bloody file
 6. Run yum to actually install it.

Compare that to

 1. Click on the link
 2. Hey, there's no step 2.

The 2nd variant is something that's was working for about 15 years, but 
I guess that was before someone decided to make the system "user 
friendly"...

- Toralf

>
> Have a look at yumex. I think you'll prefer the command line, though.
>