I didn't think of the remote display solution. Can yum/up2date manage packages from the CDROM? As far as I can tell yum will only use URLs for sources. Bill Anderson -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William Hooper Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:04 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: System-config tools in text mode Bill Anderson said: > I am running FC2 and cannot get system-config-packages or > system-cdinstall-helper to run in text mode. I always get the error "could > not open display." Are these tools designed to run in text mode? Yes. > If not, > is there something (besides rpm) to manage packages in Fedora? up2date and yum come to mind. Another option would be to use SSH to forward the display to another machine. -- William Hooper -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
