I've installed Red Hat 4 for zSeries and am having problems adding additional packages using the graphical interface. Here's what I'm doing:
- I've started VNC server and connected with a web browser - I've started KDE - From a terminal program running in super-user mode, I enter the command "system-config-packages". This starts the GUI RH Package Management tool, as shown in Chapter 16 in the PDF "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 System Administration", found at URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/pdf/rhel-sag -en.pdf - The tool allows you to add packages, under broad "groupings", such as "Desktops", "Applications", "Servers", and such. Under "Desktop", for example, is "X Windows", "GNOME", and "KDE". - I can click on one of these categories and list this packages which form it. For example, if I click on "details" on "KDE", I'll see a new pop-up window with the "standard packages" and "extra packages" listed. - I can click on one of the packages which is not already installed to identify that I want it installed. For example for "KDE" I might ask that "kdeadmin" be added, then click on the "Close" button to continue. - Now that I'm back to the "Add or Remove Packages" window, I click on the "Update" button to conduct the installation of the additional package. So far so good. Here's where things go wrong: - Once I ask for the update another pop-up window appears saying "Completed System Preparation" with the textual message saying "1 packages are queued for installation". I click on the "Continue" button. - The "Completed System Preparation" window changes to "Updating system". A third pop-up appears. - The third window alerts me that "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 disk 3 needed to install packages" I'm told to insert the CD-ROM disk and press OK. There are only two buttons on this window: Cancel and OK. I cannot find how to direct Red Hat's tools to find the materials, which are -already- mounted in a subdirectory under /mnt. And advice on how to do so? PS: I realize that I can simply do installations using the RPM command, and that "real systems programmers" should probably do so. ;-) However we're trying to specifically get the GUIs to work as they do with SuSE's distribution. This is required by the end-user asking for this server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
