Replacement for Urpmi

[HonarDust]

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?

[doktor5000]

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.

[fraterlinux]

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.