<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">I installed FC5 (at work) from an NFS mount. I picked the 'customize later' option on intial install rather than spend the time to select individual packages. When I run 'Add/Remove Software' from the Gnome (metacity) WM, a GUI pops up, it thinks for a while and gives me an error: 'unable to retrieve software information' [[Note much help there. Reminds me of an old fortan compiler that simply said 'No' if the source file had any error.]] When I click OK the GUI closes (all windows go away), After poking around, I figured out what program was running (pirut) and ran it from the command line. Now I see an error there: 'ERROR: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core' I looked for help on pirut on the system the program has --help or -h option no man page no info page nothing found in included help (html) /usr/doc/pirut* was useless briefly looked at pirut python code, no help there Is there a way I can get pirut to look at the nfs mounted image for install packages instead of going over the net? I can not possibly put this machine on an Internet connection. I guess, I can just nuke everything and re-install and actually choose the options. I almost wish I would have just left FC4 on the machine. I also tried yum, rpm, and system-install-packages but it seemd that I had to list a needed packages explicitly. I tried for a while and gave up. There must be an easier way. If there's some other program I can use, or if I can get rpm or yum to let me select packages. I want to install the KDE stuff, some other WMs, and set XDMCP to be launchable from Applications (?? I think menu) on the login screen. I know XDMCP is not secure, it does not matter: the network this will run on a physically secure. Everything worked fine (installing new software with pirut) on my home machine (which is connected to the Internet). Any help appreciated. [[FC5 seams to have so much documentation, but never anything I'm really lookiing for]] - Kevin <div> </div></div></body></html>