[H-GEN] Linux DVD

[Paul Cornford]

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On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:38, Robert Stuart wrote:

> Yum will automatically look after dependencies for you.  For example, 
> you could do "yum install mplayer" and yum would figure out the 
> dependencies for mplayer and install them along with mplayer.  Rather 
> handy esp in the case of mplayer.  I started using it when I started 
> playing with jpackage java packages and dependencies got rediculous.
> 
> yum requires repositories to be made of packages (it needs the header 
> information for each pacakge), but there are public ones that you can 
> use.  You can also do "yum update" which will give you a list of 
> outstanding updates for your system and ask you if you want to install.
> 

That sounds great but where do I get it? 
-- 
Paul Cornford
Web Programmer
Caboolture Business Enterprise Centre
39 Aerodrome Rd, Caboolture. 4510
Ph. 0754 991763


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