Getting Some Reasonable RPM Packages? 2004-12-13 - By Wayne Watson
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It's a good suggestion to burn them on to a CD, but unfortunately the highspeed
machine does not have a burner. Best I can do is put them on a 100M zip drive.
If
someone has them on a CD and can send them to me that would be good. Otherwise,
I
guess I'm going to just have to be picky and get what looks reasonable. It
appears
there's no simple way to do this, that is something like the Install Package
mechanism for the original CDs. Maybe Synaptic might narrow down my needs.
Maybe RH
even has burned them into a CD, but I suspect not.
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 06:59:53 -0800, Wayne Watson wrote:
>
>
>>I may need to bring down only a few packages. It would be good if it could be
done in
>>the style of say installing kde from the RHL 9 CD. For example, selecting
install kde
>>on the CD causes only related packages to be brought onto the HDrive. I don't
think
>>this selectivity is available via the ftp errata site. The question is how to
proceed
>>to bring down some meaningful packages. I certainly don't need Chinese
characters and
>>other stuff that's up there, and up2date seems useless to me at this point.
Further
>>it's not clear where to begin. Working from the CD is a lot easier, since the
>>selections are nicely and clearly divided. I suspect up2date might be as well.
>>
>>My subscription runs out Dec. 30. I do have access to a highspeed line at a
local
>>business I do volunteer work at. Suggestions? Ideas?
>
>
> Some people download all errata packages, burn them on CD, transfer them home
> and use Yum, Apt-RPM or Synaptic to install the updates. While Yum and Apt-RPM
> are command-line tools, Synaptic is a graphical user interface for Apt. There
> are add-on package providers for Red Hat Linux 9, like http://fedora.us and
> others which can be found easily with your favourite search engine.
>
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