rpmdrake is a graphical interface to urpmi, which permits the installation of software packages. It is provided as part of

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, Mageia and

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for package installation. The application is written in gtk2-perl, and allows: * updating lists of packages available from configured

installation Installation may refer to: * Installation (computer programs) * Installation, work of installation art * Installation, military base * Installation, into an office, especially a religious (Installation (Christianity) Installation is a Christian li ...

media (CDs, websites, or

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s) * visualization of dependencies for one or more packages * installation and un-installation of packages to and from the

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rpmdrake is

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, available under the

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, version 2.Licensing information for rpmdrake
/ref> urpmi was developed by Guillaume Cottenceau, then by Rafael Garcia-Suarez, then by Thierry Vignaud, first at Mandriva, then at Mageia (se

.

References

Linux package management-related software Linux PMS graphical front-ends Mandriva Linux {{linux-stub

See also

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