yum, dnf - their common frontend: pkcon

pkcon - the commandline client for packagekit is actually quite nice.

# To search for a keyword
$ pkcon search details opencl

# To enable updates-testing
$ pkcon repo-enable updates-testing

# To install a package
$ pkcon install -y clpeak

# To see available commands:
$ pkcon

What I like about it is, that it is fast. But maybe this is because of yum-cron.

Once PackageKit (and PackageKit-browser-plugin) is installed it also allows fancy things like this (you should see an in-browser field to install a package locally):

Read more about this feature here.

::: {#footer} [ April 29th, 2014 4:13pm ]{#timestamp} [fedora]{.tag} [yum]{.tag} [dnf]{.tag} [pkcon]{.tag} [packagekit]{.tag} :::