package installer

[Mostafa Z. Afgani]

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Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
| Douglas Furlong wrote:
| | Brian Richardson wrote:
| |
| |>
| |> On 10-Nov-04, at 8:53 PM, Rick Patterson wrote:
| |>
| |>> I am a fairly new user I have installed Fedora Core2 and used it for
| |>> a little while and would like to add some new programs but don't know
| |>> how to install RPM's I have down loaded.Along time ago I used a
| |>> redhat installation and it had a package installer but I can't find
| |>> one with this one.
| |>> Help please
| |>
| |>
| |>
| |> I've never found the graphical package installer to be particularly
| |> useful. A simple
| |>
| |> rpm -Uhv *.rpm
| |>
| |> from the terminal will install/upgrade all RPMs from the current
| |> directory and display progress as it does so.
| |
| |
| | Rick may be refering to a VERY old gui RPM package manager, I think it
| | was called gnorpm or some thing similar, it came with the very early
| | (but not incredibly early) redhat distrobutions, I think it was removed
| | after RedHat 8, but don't quote me on that.
| |
| | It was very handy, for people that don't like the terminal....
| |
| | Dougie
| |
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't FC3 come with KPackage? That was
| the GUI package manager I remember using on RH7.3...
|
| -M
Oops .. forgot that the release in question is FC2 not FC3 .. anyhow ..
KPackage should be of help ..

Best,
- -M
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