On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, 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?
|
| Doug Roberts
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Murphy's rule of combat: Incoming fire has right of way.
rpm is the RedHat Package Manager and it is included with Mandrake. To learn
about rpm, read the rpm HOW-TO, or use "man rpm" from a command line (No
Quotes).
IIRC the command line is
rpm -Uvh <filename.rpm>.
U=update package - installes or updates packages
v=verbose output - more detailed explanations
h=use 50 hash marks to indicate install/update progress
You need to have the CD-ROM mounted when you try to use rpm with the files on
the CD.
FYI, the folder on the CD should be
/<CD mount folder>/Mandrake/RPMS/<filename.rpm>.
You will neen to include the path information so rpm can locate the file to be
installed.
HTH,
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
