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Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote: | 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... | | -M Oops .. forgot that the release in question is FC2 not FC3 .. anyhow .. KPackage should be of help ..
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