Very Computer

Im trying to run the package manager from the
control panel that comes with RedHat 4.1 (glint)
Its seems no matter what path I set up in the
configure it always comes back and says
"no rpms found" or a window will open listing
no rpms from the cd even though it scaned the cd
for about 30 seconds. How do you get it recognize
rpms? Id like to use this to install some software.

TIA

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Or simply use the command line (glint is not a very good piece of
software at the moment - I heard somewhere they're working on it):

        rpm

        rpm --help

        man rpm

        rpm -i mypackage.23.4.i386.rpm

HTH,
        Martin Schulz

:
:>
:>
:> Im trying to run the package manager from the
:> control panel that comes with RedHat 4.1 (glint)
:> Its seems no matter what path I set up in the
:> configure it always comes back and says
:> "no rpms found" or a window will open listing
:> no rpms from the cd even though it scaned the cd
:> for about 30 seconds. How do you get it recognize
:> rpms? Id like to use this to install some software.
:
:IIRC, there's a point "configure" where you can put a directory for
:the rpm's to use. On my system it is somehting like
:/mnt/cdrom/Redhat/... by default. You may need to change that.
:
Thats the whole point. I used the "configure" button and
put in my path to the CD (cd0/...) and also tried the
hard drive where I had a few RPM's and still nothing.
Looks to me like I just may have to stick with the
command line.

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Hi

Glint won't recognise/install rpm *source* files, a RedHat man told me!

So use the command line rpm command to install source packages!

Will
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