FC5: software install problems
Dan
grinnz at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 15:10:57 UTC 2006
Stephen Mirowski wrote:
> I am trying to install more programs from my FC5 discs, but the
> install programs
> keep grabbing files from ftp mirrors instead of my CDs.
>
> First I tried: "Add/Remove Software"
> - picked OpenOffice and some other stuff, so it started download hundreds
> of MBs of files I already had on disc.
>
> Then I tried: "Nautilus"
> - Selected a whole bunch of OpenOffice files, right-clicked to install.
> Well it found all the dependencies on the net, and started to download
> them, even though they are on the distro CDs.
>
> Is there a way to use the GUI installers to install programs from the CDs
> only (like the way it used to work) only download files if newer version
> are avail (Like Mandriva's RPM tool)? Or is there another installer?
>
> Stephen
>
My FC5 installs on two different computers of two different arches (both
DVD) didn't do any sort of ftp grabbing. Perhaps there are packages
missing on your CDs for some reason?
-Dan
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