Add/Remove programs

[Peter W Beninate]

Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:01, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>>Am Do, den 20.05.2004 schrieb venkata ramana um 15:04:
>>
>>
>>>      I have installed fedora core2 from network using an ftp server.
>>>Now if I want to add a package using add/remove programs it is asking
>>>me to insert CDs. Is there a way to specify the location from which
>>>add/remove program fetches the rpm files. If it can install the rpm
>>>packages directly from network life will become easy for me.
>>
>>>ramana.
>>
>>man yum
>>man up2date
> 
> Being able to use the Add/Remove application for this would be
> advantageous.
> 
> It provides a nice and easy gui to be able to read descriptions of
> applications. For people like my farther, I could tell him to look in
> there if he's trying to install some thing, and then have the ISO's on
> my file server. It would make things much simpler for the two of us.
> 
> It seems a tad strange that there isn't an easier way of pointing it to
> a local repo.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 

This may be something to look into:

http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/

I haven't tried it myself, but it is supposed to be a GUI frontend for 
apt-get.