Package Manager Like Synaptic? (Gnome/24)

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Found it. Works like a champ!

BTW, I've noticed that yumex-dnf will not always tell you if a package you added will remove other packages. For now I'm using yumex-dnf to locate packages their dependencies and extras, then installing via the command line.

PS., I love the Fedora command line. Very mature and absolutely bug-free. It lets you know everything it's going to do. Being new to this distro I've made many mistakes; and the cli has saved me many times.

gnome-software shows only applications (packages with app-data) not all packages

Moreover, use of Gnome Sortware breaks consistency of dnf. I recommend not using it until both apps use a common transaction database

I've been experimenting with Debian Jessie, and apparently Ian doesn't like gnome-software for the same reason; which is the reason he gave for not including it in Jessie. It can however be added in Sid. I'm inclined to agree him.

While experimenting with installing openSUSE to a USB stick, I decided that I wanted to remove the cached packages. One of the mods recommended that I use sudo 'zypper clean -a' to remove them. I believe the equivalent command in Fedora would be sudo 'dnf clean all'. This cleaned all all right. It removed the appstream-database that gnome-software relies on. That hosed my entire install. The next time I get that idea, I'm going to ask for help first; but I think the correct command to use would be sudo 'dnf clean packages'. I believe this will leave the appstream-database alone.