On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Steven Stern wrote: > There are dependencies in the dependencies. But, for each CD, I did > > mount /media/cdrom > cp /media/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/*devel* /mnt/hdd1/devel/ > eject /media/cdrom Use yum or up2date. It will get them off the network without pain. (and gets the latest pacakges - if there are any updates. Once updates are installed - cd versions might break dependencies) And If you don't want to go across the network - and have sufficient local disk space - create a local yum repository for all the packages on the disk. and specify it to yum. Satish