Subject: Re: YDL 2.0: Installing additional packages
From: Sam Moore (samiwas@macconnect.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 09:17:24 MDT
Yes that's a subtlety of that option. -U works for installs, and
removes any previous files, which I don't think -i does.
>Thanks for the info Sam.
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>I tried the command line, and it did work. Interestingly, I used the -U
>switch to install new packages and that still seemed to work fine.
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>Mark
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>Installing additional packages
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>It might pay to learn how to do rpm from the command line - in case
>you stomp your X installation for example - plus it's faster.
>rpm -Uvh <packagename>.rpm
>will upgrade something.
>Use
>rpm -ivh <packagename>.rpm to install something you don't already
>have (i for install, U for upgrade - see? It's easy :-)
>The vh means "verbose, with hashmarks" - basically gives feedback on
>your progress.
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>It understands filename globbing, so you can do rpm -ivh *.rpm to
>install every rpm in a directory. In some cases, if you do something
>like this, rpm will suspend judgement about dependencies etc. until
>it see what you're installing.
>rpm will tell you when it thinks you have bits missing that the
>package needs, or when there are apparent conflicts. Then the fun
>begins!
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>>Thanks, I'll look into that.
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>>Unfortunately, I do not know the old-fashioned way.
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>>My only other experience with Linux is from using Mandrake, and they have
> >provided their own really nice GUI's for just about everything.
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> >Mark
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> >When I added the Xautoconfig package as per Dan's recommendation, I did it
> >the old fashioned way.
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> >mount /dev/cdrom
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>>cd /mnt/cdrom
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>>cd /YellowDog/ppc
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>>rpm -Uvh Xautoconfig..blah...blah
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>>cd /
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>>umount /dev/cdrom
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>>eject /dev/cdrom :)
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>>(sans smiley, of course)
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>>I like the new RPM managers though. Does yup have a GUI front end of any
>>sort?
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>>>From: "Mark Phippard"
>>>Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>>>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>>>Subject: YDL 2.0: Installing additional packages
>>>Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:22:06 -0400
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>>>What is the proper way to add additional packages from the CD's?
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>>>I am trying to use GnoRPM.
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>>>Whenever I try to install a package, I get an error that says something
>>>like CPIO: Bad header. This happens after it transfers the package from
>>>the CD.
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>>>Any ideas?
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>> >Thanks
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>> >Mark
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