Hello: I have been a long time user of Suse. On Suse, installing an application with Yast was a breeze. Using kpackage was great to know about packages (installed or not). On RedHat, installing an application seem to be a pain, with little feedback. kpackage is not available on this distro, as an rpm. For example I am trying to use Python/idle, and still missing files! I may be missing something... or Suse in this area may just be better? Let me know if there is a better way under RedHat 8.0. Thanks.

redhat-config-packages replaces kpackage in fact, just type redhat-config- and complete it with the tab key: you have a lot of setup-type programs with that prefix. as far as a better system, my understanding is that any system with apt-get capability is better regarding dependencies. SuSE Yast vs. Red Hat ? dunno, had SuSE 7.0 installed at one time but never got on the internet with it because (as a newbie) i couldn't get the modem driver installed in that 2.2.16 kernel. Yast _could be_ better for upgrading packages.

there is a port of apt-get for red hat at http://apt.freshrpms.net/. and for the RH 7.3 and 8 users, there is a place to get easy updates to KDE (rpm and apt-rpm) from http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/. With the apt-rpm i upgraded KDE to 3.1 in about 45 minutes using the apt-rpm. :) hope that helps in some way.

u can try the following link : http://rpmwiz.sourceforge.net/download.html to download "rpmwiz". i personally feel, kpackage is irreplaceable.. rpmwiz will however, help u survive.