Brian Clark writes:
Hi Babu,
@ 11:41:26 AM on 10/31/01, babu walad wrote:
If anybody has the answer how to search and install a particular package off the distro CDs please let me know.
I'm absolutely not trying to be "smart" or sarcastic here..
What's wrong with just doing something like this?
$ su $ cd && mount /dev/cdrom $ updatedb $ locate [guess-at-package-name] | grep cdrom
If you see an interesting package, just do
$ less /media/cdrom/path/to/package.rpm
And read about it. That's usually what I do.
If you go to install it, it should let you know what its dependencies are if needed. If it's already installed, it'll tell you when you go to install it with rpm -i (or you can `rpm -qa | less' and look around).
Unfortunately this will not make its way into the Yast list of installed packages. I install, upgrade all of my rpms using rpm, not yast. But it is because of ignorance and being frustrated using yast's (1 or 2) package management.
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