Finding an RPM on the distribution media
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During the installation of Linux I had to choose between a full install and a partial one. I chose the latter, installing the required packages plus those which I recognized from my years in UNIX application development. Shortly after getting up and running I thought I wanted to run linuxconf (it turned out that I didn't need this) and netcfg (to set up TCP/IP networking). Error messages suggested that I needed three additional packages: Tkinter, tix, and gd. This is how I retrieved them from the CD-ROM distribution media. 1. Insert the CD into the drive. Mount the CD-ROM so it's available to Linux. On my system the CD-ROM gets mounted at /cd; change these instructions to match your own configuration. 2. Use the find command to locate the RPMs. To find an RPM you must know something about its name. One of the packages I wanted to install was tix, so I typed: # find /cd -name *tix* -print /cdrom/software/tix-4.1.0.6-30a.ppc.rpm # 3. Give the results of the find command to the rpm utility. # rpm -ivh -vv /cdrom/software/tix-4.1.0.6-30a.ppc.rpm # I also have a page about using rpm. | |
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