development packages

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:21:43 -0600, Otto Haliburton
<ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:15 PM
> > To: Otto Haliburton
> > Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: development packages
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:07:17 -0600, Otto Haliburton
> > <ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Mark, I don't know what you are doing, but I definitely did not
> > experience
> > > what you are going through when I installed fc2 or fc3. When you
> > installed
> > > you did the up2date thing I assume, and then I installed all of the
> > packages
> > > using the system thing.  So I don't know what is happening to you.
> > >
> >
> > I need to build ndiswrapper, or that's what I've done in the past.
> > Maybe there's an RPM somewhere I should try installing. I'll look in
> > the page you pointed me to a minute ago.
> >
> > However, and this has happened to me pretty much every time I've
> > installed FC, is that I choose the Desktop installation to build the
> > machine and it installs NO tools. I don't get gcc, automake, autoconf,
> > etc., so I cannot build source and have to struggle through RPM to try
> > and get the stuff I need. That's the state I'm in right now and trying
> > to get beyond.
> >
> > It would be great if there was some macro command that said 'update
> > this machine and give me the toolset required to build code', but
> > there doesn't seem to be a way to do that AFAICT.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> You got me I always specify with the installation to install everything so I
> get everything, but you may have to install of the libraries with the
> install/remove applications thing in order for it to install the development
> tools.  Like I said I always go through that routine and select everything,
> there maybe a flag that will allow you to do it I will need to go to linux
> in a minute and see
> 

there must be some way to tel RPM to install everything even now,
right? I don't have to go back and rebuild the system from scratch to
get this stuff.

Once I hear about yum, which seems to be what redhat-update is using.
Can I use yum to get this handled more painlessly?

Thanks again!

- Mark