On Sun, 12 May 2002 10:05, Ian Nicoll shouted from the roof tops: > > > > Why do you want to copy it from the CD. try using > > rpm -Uvh /path/to/file/on/cdrom/xchatblahblahblah > > to install it from the CD > > Hi Mick, > > I think you misunderstood what I was saying, or I misunderstood what you > are suggesting. Please remember that I am new to the Linux OS, so some > things that seem obvious to you might not be to me. > > The dependencies that I want are on the CD, the program I want to > install is on my hard drive in /home/ian (I think). > > I presume that the dependencies have to be on the HDD in some location > that the program knows about for it to work, for it to do its thing with > these dependencies.
I'm FAR from expert using rpm from a commandline - I use kpackage (part of KDE) for installing rpms. see if this scenerio makes sense you wish to install xchat.rpm which is stored in /home/ian but it is dependent on openssl.rpm which is stored on your distribution CD at /mnt/crdom/distro/openssl.rpm. rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/disrto/openssl.rpm rpm -Uvh /home/ian/xchat.rpm another way is cd /home/ian cp /mnt/cdrom/distro/openssl.rpm /home/ian/ rpm -Uvh /home/ian/openssl.rpm xchat.rpm /\/\ik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
