On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:40:04 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:16 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:19:37 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:20:32 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 23:12 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > > >>>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:38:29 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>>>Add/Remove packages (system-config-packages) gets confused once you've > > > >>>>updated packages to errata versions (e.g. by doing "yum update"). You're > > > >>>>better off just sticking with yum. > > > >>> > > > >>>Hello! > > > >>> > > > >>>That means yum and system-config-packages have a compatible problem ? > > > >>>What should I do if I want to install packages ? User Yum or > > > >>>system-config-packages ? > > > >> > > > >>I would just use yum if I was you. > > > > > > > > > > > > But why not make them sync. together? > > > > > > That would the thing to do but at the moment there is a problem with > > > system-config-packages, which is why I suggest sticking to yum for the > > > time being. > > > > > > In FC4 there may well be a yum-based tool that completely replaces > > > system-config-packages anyway. > > > > > > Paul. > > > > Thats a good idea but how to install the package from CD ? > > There are a variety of ways of doing this. The simplest is simply to > mount the CD and manually use "rpm" to install the desired package. You > may have to install dependency packages first though, as rpm does not > install dependencies for you. > > If you've got lots of disk space, the easiest thing to do is to create > your own yum repository and edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo, > commenting out the line: > > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core- > $releasever > > and adding a line: > > baseurl=file:///home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-$releasever > > You can create this repo by doing the following: > > # mkdir -p /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3 > (insert 1st FC3 CD) > # mount /media/cdrom > # cp /media/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/*.rpm /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3 > # umount /media/cdrom > (repeat previous 3 steps for each of the remaining FC3 CDs) > # cd /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3 > # rpm -Uvh createrepo* > # createrepo . > > You'll need at least 2GB free space in /home to do this. > > You'll then be able to use yum to install packages from your local repo > without ever needing to mount your CDs. > > Paul. Thanks Paul and I will try... Wong Kwok Hon
