Fomr the command line you would type:
rpm -Uvh /path/to/rpm/rpm-name.rpm
++ /12/99, Elton Woo:
>On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:18:13 -0600, Doug Roberts wrote:
>
>>I was wondering how it is possible to install applications from the CD after
>>installing Linux?
>>I installed Mandrake 6.1 and chose not to install things like Gnome and
>>Samba. Now I would like to install these packages, do I have to go back to
>>the CD and run install from there, or is there a command line (Yes I'm an
>>old MS-Dos user...:-) ) commmand to use that installs application packages?
>
> I'm currently using Mandrake 6.0, and though I'm comfortable with
>my DOS ad OS/2 command-line stuff, I find that just navigating the CD, and clicking on
>an RPM, is a whole lot easier than installing from a command line. In short, just
>browse the CD tree, and go to the RPMS directory, from there, you just click
>and the KDE or GNOME packager will do the rest!
>
>cheers,
>
>
>Elton Woo ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ #:9984432) Montreal, Quebec, CANADA.
> "You only live once, so let's make life easier for each other."
>I use IBM's OS/2 WARP 4.0 & Red Hat Linux 6.0: I do NOT use Microsoft products.
>
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