On Saturday 07 April 2007, John Wright wrote: > I don't much care for E17 so far, nor for the incarnation of > Gnome that is supplied, so I would like to install KDE. I > find it intensely frustrating that I can't find any way of > configuring yum to obtain the RPMs from the installation DVD > that is locally mounted, instead of downloading them from a > repository.
Ok, here's how you do this. 1) Find the mountpoint or mount the disk to a specific path. 2) As root, edit /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-base.repo 3) Comment out the 'mirrorlist' line by putting a '#' in front of it (same as the baseurl line) 4) Add another line: baseurl=file:///mnt/yellowdog where '/mnt/yellowdog' is the path to the root directory (notice the 3 slashes in that file:// URL). 5) edit the other files in that folder (yellowdog-extras.repo and yellowdog-updates.repo) and changed 'enabled=1' to 'enabled=0'. 6) yum install kdebase kdeartwork kdemultimedia kdegraphics kdepim kdeaddons kdeedu kdeadmin kdelibs kdegames kdenetwork And that should get you KDE. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
