GUI Installation Manager For Linux

[kirtan]

Hello guys!!I'm quite a newbie to linux and have been trying to get familiarised with fedora core 4.I'm facing problems trying to install applications in linux.So i needed to know if there are any GUI Install mangers for linux and will they work with all distros.please give me the name of the GUI manager if there are any.

 

[praka123]

As for GUI's,there is "pirut" in fedora,'synaptic" in Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu etc.for redhat/fedora also is "system-config-packages"

 

[eddie]

First of all Fedora 4 is too old for comfort. Get something newer like Fedora 6.

Now coming to your question. Since Fedora 4, the distro comes with Yum as its package manager and the GUI front-end for the command is known as yumex. To install yumex, all you need to do is pass the following command in a terminal window as root

yum install yumex

Once you do that, you will have a GUI client that will look like the following image and will work as you desire
*www.yum-extender.org/gfx/yumex/yumex.png

@praka123: Did Fedora 4 come with pirut?

 

[mehulved]

No pirut was introduced in FC 5.

 

[NucleusKore]

If you are new you are better off trying Open SuSE. No terminals to fiddle around with. Everything is through YaST, which is like a extended control panel of windows

 

[kirtan]

Thanks Eddie.Your help is really appreciated.As for using suse linux i'm at a training center and it is compulsory that we have to use fc4.