[packagekit] multi-package suggestions

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 12 08:52:03 PDT 2008


Tom Horsley wrote:

> The search dialog in synaptic is also excellent, allowing me to
> search just the name (when I know the search string will be in the name,
> and I want to get a smaller list to sort through), or the name and
> description (when I have no idea what the package is named,
> but have a good idea of something that probably shows up in the
> description). A search for files I want to get installed would
> be really nice as well (not sure if synaptic can do that).

Both of these are possible with PackageKit. Specifically 
gpk-application. Have you tried it?

Rahul



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