Chad Martin wrote:
> Ugh. You really think so? If there were some sort of meta-RPM that you > could install to get all that stuff, I'd agree. Something like this: > > rpm -Uvh all-dev-tools.rpm > > Really, though... This guy is still trying to figure out how to install > a single piece of software and you're suggesting he install a bunch of > other dev stuff? One step at a time, I'd suggest. IIRC, this fellow was talking RH9. With RH9, if you stick the (I'm pretty sure)... install CD in, with A graphical desktop running, you first get a prompt to enter the root password if you are not already already logged in as root, then after to enter the root password, you get a nice graphical menu, all divided up into categories, of which one is dev tools. Each category has a basic kit that is installed by default, with a bunch more optional items you can add, and a description of each one. Then, if you need to swap out CD's it even ejects the CD for you, and tells you which one to put in next. The basic default dev tools are pretty basic... the stuff even a non-programmer is going to find useful, if they start doing things like setting up a web server, which is what this guy was doing. If he doesn't have gcc, I was figuring he must have installed a really, really, really office-oriented installation, and might be missing other fairly useful Apache-related stuff. I never did an install of Linux w/o a decent compliment of dev tools... not the kernel kit, or the desktop development kits, or any of the really esoteric stuff, but gcc and Perl... and php and a few other toys are nice to have around, 'just in case'. I had that stuff installed on my WindDOS boxes (Borland C and Microsoft Quick C, Perl, Apache, etc., where it was a lot more work to install it, as nothing much was on the install disks, except the OS and a few very lame tools. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
