Can't speak for Fedora specifically, but on RHEL you add repos to txt configs under /etc/yum.repos.d The files are ini style [setting] ... key=value Yes, unfortunately it can be that clumsy, I've used CentOS and Fedora in the past, they drive me nuts with package management (as well as the bloat). -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > I got a very nice 10 disk set of Fedora 26 from OSDisc.com recently. It > consisted of 1 Gnome and 1 KDE Live install each, and 8 repository disks. I > had gotten similar sets of opensuse 12.2 and 11.3 years ago, so I had some > experience with the tricky repository install. Opensuse online repositories > can be tricky, too, so a permanent stable repository on disk is nice. > > My question is, can Fedora really be so clumsy?? Is Gnome really so > non-intuitive, and are they too smart to need a fine tuned cursor arrow?? > KDE is reasonably familiar with opensuse but I can't figure out how to > install packages from the Fedora repository. I have an ancient RedHat9 set I > could figure out, but not Fedora. The opensuse Yast interface is great to > help a user get past configuration and into development familiarity, but I > would like to think I can be competent in alternative distros. > > The best I can figure is the KDE tool "Discover" is supposed to construct a > repository RPM database, but I don't see where it can be reconfigured to > local disk storage. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list