Announcing XRPM 2.2 "Xrpm" is a tool born out of frustration with the RedHat and Caldera rpm management tools. The first version was written in Tcl/Tk, a great scripting language but I don't like it for any larger applications. This version is written in Python a much better language in my opinion. Xrpm has the following features: - Displays all RPM packages installed on your system. - Query any installed package(s) to find out what it is. - List the files of any installed package(s). - Remove installed package(s). - Open a directory panel to view uninstalled packages. - Can scan around your file system looking for RPM's. - Query any uninstalled package(s). - List the files of any uninstalled package(s). - Install an uninstalled package(s). - Handy right mouse functions in the directory/file display panel. - Open an FTP site to view uninstalled packages. - Can scan around the FTP file system looking for RPM's. - Query any uninstalled package(s) on the remote site. - List the files of any uninstalled package(s) on the remote site. - Install an uninstalled package(s) from the remote site. - Your favorite FTP sites are stored in a file for quick access. Check the "manual", "CHANGES" and "todo" file for more information. These are now located in /usr/doc/xrpm-2.2 XRPM is available from "http://www.gmsys.com" in the "Software" section. What's new from version 2.1: ----------------------------- NEW FEATURES - First steps to be more object oriented so we can plug new toolkit in (Gtk) for Gnome and Gtk-Step. - Added code to properly show Appicon under WindowMaker. - Moved help to help.py as "Ghelp" class - Moved menus to menu.py as "Gmenu" class - Added option to display package sizes (not with groups) - Moved ftp-sites file to /etc - Put verbose install/remove back in so you can see whats happening. - Added setting of install and remove options as defaults. BUGS FIXED - Changed image buttons to work with Python-1.5. - Help screens can no longer be edited. - Fixed bug in group display when group name had a space in it. - Disabled editing when viewing log file.