[techtalk] RedHat newbie question

[Rebecca Gutterman]

Thank you everybody - I'd knew you'd save me!


On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Robert Kiesling wrote:

> 
> Nicole Zimmerman <colby at wsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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)
> 
> The advantage of using package management software at all is that the
> package information will tell you what other package dependencies
> there are.  In the case of rpm, the software will also tell you if the
> package or packages are already installed (which you can usually
> override).
> 
> Also, in the case of rpm, the software will install multiple packages
> in the correct order.  So, for example, the person doing the
> installation can simply cd to the RPMS directory on the CD-ROM and
> type "rpm -i gcc*" and the entire compiler system should be
> installed from the correct package files....
> 
> I believe that command also installs development libraries and
> headers, but I'm using rpm with Caldera, so I don't know about that.
> 
> There's also glint, a graphical front end to rpm, which I hear is 
> pretty good.  
> 
> Robert 
> 
> 
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