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Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Scully, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adding Software to Red Hat Thanks for the answer, but I should probably rephrase my question. Certainly one can use the RPM tool to install KDE or GNOME. However it appears that there are many MANY prereqs and coreqs associated with doing so. What I'm hoping for is a tool from Red Hat, similar to YaST from SuSE, which will "do the work" for me, accurately and quickly. As an example, here's what happens when I try to use RPM to install kdebase: [root@linuxp03 RPMS]# rpm -ihv kdebase-2.2-12.s390.rpm error: failed dependencies: kdelibs >= 2.2-0.alpha1.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 kdelibs-sound >= 2.2-0.alpha1.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 XFree86-xdm is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libDCOP.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libGL.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libGLU.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libfam.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkab.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkdecore.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkdefakes.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkdeprint.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkdeprint_management.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkdesu.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkdeui.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkfile.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkhtml.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkio.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkjava.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkparts.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkscreensaver.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkspell.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkssl.so.2 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libksycoca.so.3 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libktexteditor.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libmng.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libqt.so.2 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libartskde.so is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libkmid.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 libqtmcop.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2-12 [root@linuxp03 RPMS]# Is the no install/upgrade tool from Red Hat which makes adding complex packages such as KDE or GNOME easy? Or is this another reason to focus only on SuSE as the distribution of choice? -----Original Message----- From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adding Software to Red Hat You should be able to download RPMs (make sure they are S390 rpms) and use the RPM command: rpm -Uvh rpmname.rpm This is what YaST does 'under the covers'... On Monday 13 January 2003 03:00 pm, you wrote: > If someone would point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate the > assistance. I'm new to using Red Hat. > > I've installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 for S/390 (2.4 kernel) without any > graphical interface (KDE or GNOME) packages. Is there a non-graphical > (using PuTTY, ncurses, for example) interface to adding software to this > system? If I were using SuSE (which I'm quite comfortable with) I'd use > YaST to do something like this. > > William P. Scully > Systems Programmer > Computer Associates International, Inc > 2291 Wood Oak Drive > Unit 5-29C > Herndon, Virginia 20171 > > Work: +1 703 708 3976 > FAX: +1 703 708 3267 > Beep: +1 888 BEEP CAI > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. April 25-29, 2003 For details see http://www.wavv.org
