Subject: Re: Unstuffing and installing
From: Tony Yazbeck (tyazbeck@bigfoot.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 11:24:00 MST
Thank you VERy much...installing via YUP is beautiful...works like a
charm..alot quicker than finding things yourself thats for sure. Is there a
yup command that lists all the available software that u can choose to
install from too?
Thanks a million
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Stillwell" <bstill@terraplex.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Unstuffing and installing
> Tony, a good place to find those RPMs is off the YDL CD that you used to
> install with. Also you can use yup to keep your system up to date and
> install packages. You may not have it installed, but try running the
> following as root:
>
> yup install autoconf automake gcc
>
> Bryan
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:47:25AM -0600, Charles Stevenson wrote:
> >The best way to do this with YDL is to use RPMS not tarballs... RPM will
put
> >the files where they need to go and set the permissions correctly.
> >
> >`man rpm` ;-)
> >
> >Regards,
> >Charles
> >
> >On this day, Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Tony Yazbeck wrote:
> >>
> >> I am slowly but surely making my way into installing,and eventually
compling kernels. However, I need to know some very basic things (I sure
feel silly asking these things that I do blindly on the MacOS, but anyhow)
> >>
> >> I d/l the following necessary utilities for compiling a kernel to my
root folder:
> >>
> >> autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
> >> automake-1.4.tar.gz
> >> gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz
> >>
> >> I know I have to unstuff and install but Im not sure how or if there is
a special folder of doing it right.
> >>
> >> I appreciate all help.
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
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