question about package installation

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:14 +0800, ZHU Lin wrote:
> Hi,I want to ask a question about package installation. My computer is
> installed with Redhat enterprise linux, but many packages like gcc are
> not installed. So I insert the first installation CD into the CD-ROM
> and the package installation wizard starts automatically. After I have
> chosen the desired packages, the wizard prompts a message to insert
> the second CD before continuing. However, I can not get the first CD
> out of the CD-ROM at that time and it can not be unmounted unless the
> wizard is stopped. Could anyone please suggest a way to solve this
> problem?

Don't run the installer from the CD.  As the root user, simply run one
of these two commands on the command line:

	# redhat-config-packages   (for RHEL 3 and earlier)
	# system-config-packages   (for RHEL4 and later)

This fires up the GUI package installer from the hard disk and you can
start to install the items you need.  In Gnome, simply click on the Red
Hat icon on your desktop's menu bar, then drop all the way to the bottom
where it says "Add/Remove Software" and click.  It'll ask you to enter
the root password and then start the installer.

> Btw. There are many packages to be added to the current installation,
> so I am not to use rpm because of the large number of dependencies.

Not a problem.  I would suggest in the future that you at least install
the C development system if you have the space.  It comes in REALLY
handy, as you're now finding out!  8-)

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