Re: Getting Some Reasonable RPM Packages?
Michael Schwendt <[email protected]>
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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. -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 loadavg: 1.50 1.34 1.13 -- Shrike-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list