Todd Walton wrote:
I'm using "Add/Remove
Programs". I tell it to install "Development Tools" or whatever it's
called, and it goes completely through it, making me swap disc one,
disc two, disc three, disc two again, disc one again, and then disc
two still again, and it says it's done. The progress bar is
completely to the right, the dialog box says done, and I click the OK
button. But then I open "Add/Remove Programs" again and the
development thing is unchecked. There is no "gcc" command in the
system. I'm frustrated.
-todd
Don't necessarily believe what the checkbox tells you. Do an
rpm -qa | grep <program_name>
to see if what you think you installed is really installed. I had the
same problem with the Add/Remove Programs utility the other day while
removing software. The utility would tell me the program was not
installed when trying to un-install it (even though the checkbox said it
/was/ installed).
I found that if I quit and restarted the Add/Remove utility it
eventually figured out what was and wasn't in the RPM database. I think
it only queries the database on startup.
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