RE: [newbie] Package manger

2002-01-08 Thread Robin
Ashley, Thanks for the reply. Sounds like that is just what I wanted. Robin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ashley Reynolds > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re

Re: [newbie] Package manger

2002-01-08 Thread Ashley Reynolds
Robin, I think what you may be looking for are the urpm* tools, you can use urpmi (to install packages), urpme (to erase packages) and urpmf (to find packages). They are command line utilities, written by MandrakeSoft. The nice thing about urpmi is that it *will* install package dependencies fr

[newbie] Package manger

2002-01-08 Thread Robin
I am wondering if there is a version of package manager for RedHat. I am talking about one that would let you choose package to install from the distro CDs and it will automatically resolve dependences by retrieving them from different CDs. Pardon me for my ignorance if there is already one, I ju