I just installed YDL 5.01 on my Mac mini(ppc). Download and burn of the iso, and the installation, went smoothly. (I am a bit surprised not to have seen much traffic here about YDL5 on Mac hardware since 5.01 was released; I guess Linux on the Mac ppc platform is even deader than I had thought...).
I don't much care for E17 so far, nor for the incarnation of Gnome that is supplied, so I would like to install KDE. I find it intensely frustrating that I can't find any way of configuring yum to obtain the RPMs from the installation DVD that is locally mounted, instead of downloading them from a repository. The alternative of asking rpm to install one package at a time (or a group of packages), making note of the dependencies, installing them and making note of further dependencies, etc, is even more distasteful. Is there a way of configuring yum so that it can use the RPMS that are already available locally? I tried just setting the .repo files baseurls to baseurl=file:///<path to mounted dvd RPMS directory>, but it complained about the absence of the repodata information. Any suggestions much appreciated, John Wright Dr. John M. Wright, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, M/S 0314, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0314; email: jwright(at)ucsd(dot)edu; phone: 858-534-3049 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
