On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Doug Roberts wrote:
| Hi All
|
| Thanks to all for all the help...as for Ernie my comments follow...
|
| > 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).
|
| I've been reading all I could get in teh HOW-TO sections for the last 3
| months. It's been a struggle with this small monitor I have (my real 17"
| monitor is in the shop under warranty repair).
|
| >
| > 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
|
| AH HAH!!! Somebody finally explained the switches. Thank you.....thank you.
| I couldn't find the syntax explained in anything I've read yet.
| >
| > 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.
|
| Something else I've missed in all my reading or maybe I read it and haven't
| gotten it pounded into my brain enough...just how do you know which is an
| executable and which are accessory files to the executable? In dos/win there
| is .exe, .dll, .txt etc. and it is easy to tell which does which.
|
| >
| > HTH,
| >
| > Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
| >
If you use the KDE desktop as I do, you can hover the mouse cursor over a
file's icon in kfm (filemanager), and the file type will be listed in the
status bar at the bottom of the display.
>From the command line, it is listed in the permissions of a "ls -al" (no
quotes) display. I do not know how to read the listing, because I use the GUI
too much, and so I neglect the command line (shame on me).
HTH,
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Best of the new millenium to you and yours.
