A Verbose Update Manager

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/a-verbose-update-manager.161158/

I'm using Fedora 17 and the preinstalled 'Software Update' utility is just disappointing. While installation is in progress, all it shows is how many updates are selected, their combined size, and a progress bar with no indication of what % in complete.
What I would like is a GUI based update manager which would show size of each file, how much of it has been downloaded, what % of file download is complete, and a progress bar against each file currently being downloaded.

I suggest that you should skip the GUI based update manager & head towards the mighty YUM via the command line. just issue yum update . That's it. It will show you everything in beautifully arranged format in the terminal. Moreover, as Delta RPMs have been enabled by default in this version, you can also see that how much data has been saved from downloading by Yum in the terminal. Try it, you'll love it.