[techtalk] RedHat newbie question

[Theresa Radke]

And another nice thing about redhat upgrade install, or expert install is that when looking at the packages, you can press f1 (i think it is f1) and get a brief description of the package and what it is suppose to do.



On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:56:14 -0800 Nicole Zimmerman <colby at wsu.edu> wrote:
>You can reboot to do what looks like the installation again (follow the
>same path you did to install in the first place), and choose "upgrade"
>instead of install. This will let you add any packages you didn't add
>the first time (you might use expert mode for this to see exactly what's
>going on). :o)
>
>This (I think) would be the easiest way to get stuff on there that you
>didn't catch the first time (without trying to figure out which package
>does what off of your install CD to do it manually). :o)
>
>-nicole
>
>Rebecca Gutterman wrote:
>> 
>> I just installed RedHat 6.0, didn't examine what it was installing too
>> closely just accepted defaults.  Is it possible there was no compiler
>> installed?  (which cc, which gcc both say no gcc in <path> ).
>> If so, how can I install it (or do I  need to reinstall RedHat?).
>> Install directions seem to want to use gcc to do the installation.
>> Chicken, egg, etc.
>> 
>> Please excuse my extreme cluelessness, I'll catch up I swear.
>
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