Re: Adding programs

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

John Summerfield wrote:

> In contrast, in Debian (which I've been using for a while) I'd say something 
> like
> apt-get install strace
> and apt-get would find what other packages are needed and offer to install 
> those too. It would also ask me for the correct CDs.
>
> I expected this to just work, as well as it does in Debian.
>
> It doesn't seem to me that up2date is the answer either.
>  
This works for me (I already had strace installed):

   rpm -e strace
   up2date strace

you can also browse for RPMs on RHN and push an install from there, 
which is nice.

jch