Subject: Re: YDL 2.0: Installing additional packages
From: Sam Moore (samiwas@macconnect.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 20:53:35 MDT
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.
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!
>Thanks, I'll look into that.
>
>Unfortunately, I do not know the old-fashioned way.
>
>My only other experience with Linux is from using Mandrake, and they have
>provided their own really nice GUI's for just about everything.
>
>Mark
>
>When I added the Xautoconfig package as per Dan's recommendation, I did it
>the old fashioned way.
>
>mount /dev/cdrom
>
>cd /mnt/cdrom
>
>cd /YellowDog/ppc
>
>rpm -Uvh Xautoconfig..blah...blah
>
>cd /
>
>umount /dev/cdrom
>
>eject /dev/cdrom :)
>
>(sans smiley, of course)
>
>I like the new RPM managers though. Does yup have a GUI front end of any
>sort?
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>What is the proper way to add additional packages from the CD's?
>>
>>I am trying to use GnoRPM.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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