remote installation/update using gnome/rh8.0

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:25:30AM -0800, bruce wrote:
> thanks for the response... however, we don't want to/can't use the command
> line because the app appears to get into all kinds of dependency issues...
> we were hoping that the gnome "package manager" gui app would simply allow
> us to specify the given app to install/update, and it would take care of the
> required dependencies...
> 
> as an example, installing mysql is going to require ~20-30 additional apps
> due to requirements/dependencies... we don't want to be doing this by
> command line...
> 
> if you know of a way to do this via th ecommand line.. let us know!!!

I don't know if 8.0 is still supported via up2date, but if it is, then a
quick up2date will work from the command line.

        .../Ed
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