What is Glitter?

Glitter is a text-mode interface to the RPM package management tool. It allows you to browse packages installed on your system, verify, query and uninstall those packages. It allows you to update packages with new versions and install new packages.

Download

Binary RPM version 1.1: glitter-1.1-1.i386.rpm
Source RPM version 1.1: glitter-1.1-1.src.rpm
Source code tarball: glitter-1.1.tar.gz

Installation

Basically just download and install (or compile install if you get the tarball or src.rpm). RPM installation goes something like this:

rpm -ivh glitter-1.1-1.i386.rpm

Screenshots

Woohoo! Everyone loves screenshots, even they are from a text mode tool :)

TODO

Here are some 'features', or things we'll want to add sooner than later:

Cleaner screen refresh (should be available with a patch to NEWT).
Add jumping to packages when a key is pressed (eg. pressing 'g' will take you to packages starting with 'g'pressed

Contact

You can send bug reports, comments, feature requests to:
Bas Vermeulen <bvermeul@blackstar.xs4all.nl>

Web page by Adnans <arloafoe@cs.vu.nl>