Moved to KPLUG main list because it's getting too deep for newbie.
On 6/5/06, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote: > There was in the past (Fedora Core 3) a GUI application invoked by > Applications -> System Settings -> Add/Remove Applications > This actually invoked /usr/bin/system-config-packages, and allowed one > to install software from the set of CDs that were used for the initial > system setup. > > The corresponding functionality seems to have disappeared from Fedora > Core 5. I don't instantly have a Core4 system to check against. The > would-be replacement seems to be > CircleF -> System -> Add/Remove Software > which invokes /usr/bin/pirut which requires a network connection. Not > the best thing to use if one does not always have a network connection > and wants to add software from the CDs because it was overlooked in > the initial installation. > > I know how to do this with RPM and building a list of which packages > are on which CDs, but I still have to do my own dependency fighting. > How should the typical GUI-oriented new user cope? > You have stated the problem very nicely. I believe you have overlooked nothing, but maybe there _is_ some trick known to FC developers. It seems like a perfect post as a fedora bug.
More things I have learned this morning. A Fedora Core maintainer is very proud of the fact that system-config-packages has been removed in favor of /usr/bin/pirut and /usr/bin/pup. < http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2F91283D > I myself have not found a lot of information on these programs except to see that they are very much alike in the GUI, and both require a network connection. There is also /usr/bin/yumex which is YAGUI interface to yum, and requires a network connection. I have also found that /usr/bin/yum now has a "localinstall" option, which lets you specify a local .rpm file to be installed, and tries to satisfy dependencies from yum repositories. Not exactly a solution to adding more packages from the distribution CDs. You could use it to discover the dependencies one at a time, in standard RPM fashion. What is needed is some way to make the equivalent of a local yum repository, based on the CDs. I know that Debian "apt" does something like this. But the Fedora equivalent of apt seems also to have gone away in a fit of neatness. Found a good lead for this: < http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages > You can set up the FC5 DVD as a yum repository. If you don't have the DVD or a DVD reader, you can build a yum repository from the five CDs but it will take about 3 GB. There really ought to be a way to keep just the repository metadata on line, and insert CDs as needed. The way it was back in the olden days of system-config-packages. Or there should be a way to install more packages as a system upgrade. I haven't found that either. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
