RE: question about package installation

[ZHU Lin <linzhu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you mean to run "Add/Remove Software" first, and follow its instruction to insert the proper CD?

>Don't run the installer from the CD.  As the root user, simply run one

>of these two commands on the command line:

               # redhat-config-packages   (for RHEL 3 and earlier)

               # system-config-packages   (for RHEL4 and later)

>This fires up the GUI package installer from the hard disk and you can

>start to install the items you need.  In Gnome, simply click on the Red

>Hat icon on your desktop's menu bar, then drop all the way to the bottom

>where it says "Add/Remove Software" and click.  It'll ask you to enter

>the root password and then start the installer.

>Not a problem.  I would suggest in the future that you at least install

>the C development system if you have the space.  It comes in REALLY

>handy, as you're now finding out!  8-)

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>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens vitalstream com -

>- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -

>-                                                                    -

>-  Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! -

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Linda

 

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