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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...
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