According to John Roberts: While burning my CPU.
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> From what i've been reading on the group regarding the original message
> I, too, think that my problem got a bit unclear. The installation of the
> distribution ( RH 5.1 ) goes perfectly, not a single hitch. i set up X,
> and was on my way to installing some packages, i think i first tried KDE
> and QT. I went to the package installer thingey from the control-panel
> menu in X, went to configure and chose (after i mounted my CD drive)
> /mnt/cdrom/kdeBeta4/blah/blah/blah/ the directory that the binary .rpms
> were in. Then i clicked 'Available'. The Status bar appeared saying
> 'searching for available packages' or some such message, but never
> started. The HDD's weren't making any noise, and the bar didn't move. So
> i figured that maybe it didn't want to install from the CD drive and i
> copied the .rpms to my /tmp dir. Then i switched the 'configure' tab to
> search in the /tmp directory, and the same thing happened. After doing
> that i read in one of the messages in this group that someone had a
> similar problem and solved it by grabbing the glint rpm off the RedHat
> errata pages. so i downloaded that and used the 'rpm -i' method to
> install the updated version of glint. So i then went back into X to
> install the kde rpms and the same thing happened, the status bar appeared
> but did not move. I guess my question would be, what do i try next?
Well now i understand, i have redhat-4.2 running at the minute, altho' i
also have 5.0, anyway on 4.2, i just tryed what you said, what i needed to
do was mount the cdrom in /mnt/cdrom then it works like it should, i gave no
path other than;
mount /dev/cdrom -tiso9660 /mnt/cdrom
The package manager does the rest.
You can then use the mouse to select "available" which produces a lot of
Hdisk and cdrom activity, then a small window appiers, it all seems to work
like it should. So i am sorry to say, it works for me here.
Lets hope we now have this one cleared up.
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> Thanks for the help,
> John Roberts
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Regards Richard.
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