Re: package installer

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Douglas Furlong wrote:
| Brian Richardson wrote:
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|>
|> 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...

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