RavenCT
01-14-2002, 01:37 PM
I just want to stick in here my 2cp about my experience with these RPM packages et all...
I found a couple of things in Linux that really helped me. When I did a standard install of 7.1 (then 7.2), I found that the gcc 2.x compiler was installed and not the 3.x by default. One nice thing I was able to use to remove the package was the GnomeRPM GUI tool that comes with RedHat.... If there's a dependent package, I just wrote the names down and removed those too... voila....
As for installing the packages (if you didn't use the GUI), I was playing a bit and (believe it or not) with a typo, I found the text driven utility "Midnight Commander". For those of you familiar with the old Norton Commander from the good old days of DOS on the Intel platform, this works almost exactly the same. As a matter of fact, it even looks the same.
Armed with this dandy little utility, I was able to copy, move, delete, search, and most improtant of all, navagate in and out of the RPM files. It would open and navigate into one just like a directory. From there I was able to copy the files out or even select the INSTALL or UPGRADE files contained in each RPM and performe those funcitons.
Those really made dealing with the learning curve of Linux on RedHat much easier for me....
I found a couple of things in Linux that really helped me. When I did a standard install of 7.1 (then 7.2), I found that the gcc 2.x compiler was installed and not the 3.x by default. One nice thing I was able to use to remove the package was the GnomeRPM GUI tool that comes with RedHat.... If there's a dependent package, I just wrote the names down and removed those too... voila....
As for installing the packages (if you didn't use the GUI), I was playing a bit and (believe it or not) with a typo, I found the text driven utility "Midnight Commander". For those of you familiar with the old Norton Commander from the good old days of DOS on the Intel platform, this works almost exactly the same. As a matter of fact, it even looks the same.
Armed with this dandy little utility, I was able to copy, move, delete, search, and most improtant of all, navagate in and out of the RPM files. It would open and navigate into one just like a directory. From there I was able to copy the files out or even select the INSTALL or UPGRADE files contained in each RPM and performe those funcitons.
Those really made dealing with the learning curve of Linux on RedHat much easier for me....