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Does FC2 have a tool for adding RPMs from the net?
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| General Schvantzkoph 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| I'm giving FC2 for AMD64 a try. Does Fedora Core have a tool for
installing new RPMs from the net?. Something similar to RedCarpet or the
Mandrake rpmdrake. Up2date handles updates but I don't see away for it to
install packages.
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| Lenard 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:32:04 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> I'm giving FC2 for AMD64 a try. Does Fedora Core have a tool for
> installing new RPMs from the net?. Something similar to RedCarpet or the
> Mandrake rpmdrake. Up2date handles updates but I don't see away for it
> to install packages.
From the console or xterm session type; man rpm
Also have look into both yum (should already be installed) and
apt/synaptic (http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/ for example).
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| General Schvantzkoph 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:31:40 +0000, Lenard wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:32:04 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> From the console or xterm session type; man rpm
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> Also have look into both yum (should already be installed) and
> apt/synaptic (http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/ for example).
Are there any GUI tools? I found the system-config-packages but that seems
to be dependent on the CDROMs. In Mandrake edit-urpmi-media is used to
configure the RPM sources, including network sources, that rpmdrake uses.
Is there something similiar for system-config-packages?
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| Lenard 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:18:19 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:31:40 +0000, Lenard wrote:
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> Are there any GUI tools? I found the system-config-packages but that
> seems to be dependent on the CDROMs. In Mandrake edit-urpmi-media is
> used to configure the RPM sources, including network sources, that
> rpmdrake uses. Is there something similiar for system-config-packages?
GUI Tools -- kpackage, synaptic is the GUI interface to apt and the Gnome
package managerand a few others. Look around the freshrpms.net site it
tells you how to use apt/synaptic with the CDROMs or DVD. And if all else
fails google is your friend.
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| Markku Kolkka 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> Up2date handles updates but I don't see away
> for it to install packages.
up2date --install packagename
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| John Thompson 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On 2004-08-20, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm giving FC2 for AMD64 a try. Does Fedora Core have a tool for
> installing new RPMs from the net?. Something similar to RedCarpet or the
> Mandrake rpmdrake. Up2date handles updates but I don't see away for it to
> install packages.
If you know the URL for the package, rpm can install directly from the
network.
Otherwise, there are many other tools that provide this; e.g. "yum" "Red
Carpet" "apt" etc.
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| John Thompson 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On 2004-08-20, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Are there any GUI tools?
"Red Carpet" has a GUI, "yumi" is a gui frontend to yum, "synaptic" is a
gui frontend to apt.
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| General Schvantzkoph 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:08:14 +0000, John Thompson wrote:
> On 2004-08-20, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> If you know the URL for the package, rpm can install directly from the
> network.
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> Otherwise, there are many other tools that provide this; e.g. "yum" "Red
> Carpet" "apt" etc.
Red Carpet doesn't support FC2, I doubt that they ever will. Why would
Novel want to support a competitor? As for yum and apt, those tools
require you to know the name of the package and where to fetch it from, if
you know that then you don't need the tool. URPMI and Red Carpet list all
of the available packages and they have search capabilities. They also can
handle the dependencies and install all of the related packages. That's
the sort of thing I'm looking for.
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| General Schvantzkoph 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:59:55 +0000, John Thompson wrote:
> On 2004-08-20, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> "Red Carpet" has a GUI, "yumi" is a gui frontend to yum, "synaptic" is a
> gui frontend to apt.
Thanks, I'll give them a try.
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| John Thompson 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On 2004-08-21, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Red Carpet doesn't support FC2, I doubt that they ever will. Why would
> Novel want to support a competitor?
http://open-carpet.org/
'nuff said...
> As for yum and apt, those tools
> require you to know the name of the package and where to fetch it from, if
> you know that then you don't need the tool.
No. If you have your /etc/yum.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list set up
properly, they will fetch a list of available packages (along with their
descriptions) that you can peruse at your leisure.
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| General Schvantzkoph 2004-09-15, 11:10 am |
| On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:59:58 +0000, John Thompson wrote:
> On 2004-08-21, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> http://open-carpet.org/
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> 'nuff said...
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> No. If you have your /etc/yum.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list set up
> properly, they will fetch a list of available packages (along with their
> descriptions) that you can peruse at your leisure.
Thanks
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