Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed

By William Ball

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Lead Authors
  • About the Contributing Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • I. Red Hat Linux Installation and User Services
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Linux
  • Chapter 2. Installation of Your Red Hat System
  • Chapter 3. LILO and Other Boot Managers
  • Chapter 4. Configuring the X Window System, Version 11
  • Chapter 5. Window Managers
  • Chapter 6. Connecting to the Internet
  • Chapter 7. IRC, ICQ, and Chat Clients
  • Chapter 8. Using Multimedia and Graphics Clients
  • II. Configuring Services
  • Chapter 9. System Startup and Shutdown
  • Chapter 10. SMTP and Protocols
  • Chapter 11. FTP
  • Chapter 12. Apache Server
  • Chapter 13. Internet News
  • Chapter 14. Domain Name Service and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • Chapter 15. NIS: Network Information Service
  • Chapter 16. NFS: Network Filesystem
  • Chapter 17. Samba
  • III. System Administration and Management
  • Chapter 18. Linux Filesystems, Disks, and Other Devices
  • Chapter 19. Printing with Linux
  • Chapter 20. TCP/IP Network Management
  • Chapter 21. Linux System Administration
    • Working as root
    • Performing System Maintenance
    • Managing Software with RPM
    • Using Gnome-RPM
    • Managing Users and Groups with linuxconf
    • Managing Users and Groups from the Command Line
    • Setting Disk Quotas with linuxconf
    • Creating Special Accounts with linuxconf
    • Analyzing Performance
    • Understanding Your Security Responsibilities
    • Getting Help
    • Summary
  • Chapter 22. Backup and Restore
  • Chapter 23. System Security
  • IV. Red Hat Development and Productivity
  • Chapter 24. Linux C/C++ Programming Tools
  • Chapter 25. Shell Scripting
  • Chapter 26. Automating Tasks
  • Chapter 27. Configuring and Building Kernels
  • Chapter 28. Emulators, Tools, and Window Clients
  • V. Appendixes
  • A. The Linux Documentation Project
  • B. Top Linux Commands and Utilities
  • C. The GNU General Public License
  • D. Red Hat Linux RPM Package Listings

Using Gnome-RPM

Red Hat Linux includes a very nice tool named Gnome-RPM that is also referred to as gnorpm. Gnome-RPM is a Gnome-compliant GUI for the Red Hat package manager. With Gnome-RPM, you can easily perform many of the same package management tasks that are available to the command line.

The Gnome-RPM interface, shown in Figure 21.1, has several features:

• Package Panel— Located on the left of the UI; it allows you to browse groups of packages.
• Display Window— Located on the right of the package panel; it shows the contents of your folders in the panel.
• Toolbar— Located above the display and panel; it is a graphical display of package tools.
• Menu— Located above the toolbar; it contains text-based commands, as well as help info, preferences, and other settings.
• Status Bar— Located beneath the panel and display windows; it shows the total number of selected packages.

Figure 21.1 Gnome-RPM.

Share This