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I have a problem understanding the commands of urpmi. The official manual didn't help much eather. It just made me more confused. I used to deal with apt-get and aptitude and Pacman and yum. But Urpmi is to complex for me. I want know if there is any alternative terminal based package maneger for it. Like aptitude to apt-get in debian base systems.
I searched internet but i couldn't find much.
So is there any non confusing alternative for urpmi available for mageia?

Could you please clarify what exactly confuses you about urpmi?

And no, there is no official alternative, besides using rpm directly. Some people may use smart http://labix.org/smart/, which also has CLI functionality. And some may even use yum, which is even packaged for Mageia.

HonarDust,

Maybe an alternative is PackageKit, see more info here: http://www.packagekit.org/index.html

pkcon is the application from the command line, as an example:

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# pkcon install [packages]
# pkcon  remove [package]
# pkcon  update <package>
 

for more details:

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# pkcon --help

There are two GUI to use a graphical interface: Apper for KDE and Gnome-PackageKit for Gnome.

Other alternatives do not recognize the repositories for installing new packages in Mageia or distro update.