[H-GEN] Red Hat rpm management

[Robert Kearey]

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Doug South wrote:

> My question: Is there a command line/text based tool, like glint 
> (at least that's what I think the X based tool was called) that will 
> allow me to choose packages to install? Something that will detect 
> dependecies between packages and install them in the right order.
> Or can I just "rpm -i *.rpm"? 


There are ways to trick rpm to spawn itself and install dependencies for 
you, but I don't like them for the same reason I don't like the way 
debian's apt-get does it.


> Ideally, I'd like the package selection screens that come up under 
> a text based install of Red Hat.


The only way to do that is to run the installer again, by booting from 
your install media. You can then possibly do a workstation install, 
carefully skipping the mkfs part of the install process. Of course, back 
up /etc before you try this.


> Doug


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Rob Kearey
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