Supposedly, GLINT only show you the packages that are currently _not_
installed on your harddisk. The idea is to weed through and only show
newer (or older) versions you can upgrade to. Indeed, GLINT needs an
option switch to allow you to view all packages.
-Eric Wood
Al Margheim wrote:
>
> I'm a newbie and I just got Red Hat 5.0 installed a week ago. I have a
> question about GLINT.
>
> I'm trying to use GLINT to install some packages from CDROM 2 from the
> RedHat 5.0 distribution. I'm logged in as root and I have the CDROM mounted
> and ls /mnt/cdrom shows many package files on the CD.
>
> I've used the Configure button in GLINT to tell it to look in /mnt/cdrom.
> Then when I click the Available button, the Scanning dialog appears and the
> CDROM access light goes on. After 5 or 10 seconds another message box
> appears telling me that /mnt/cdrom doesn't contain any packages.
>
> However, if I open a shell window, cd to /mnt/cdrom and use rpm, I can
> install packages off that CDROM just fine.
>
> Anyone know what do I need to do differently to get GLINT to detect those
> packages?
>
> TIA,
> Al Margheim
>
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