Installing additional packages?

[Norberto Quintanar]

Installing RPMs From the Installation CDs
Place one of the installation CDs in your CD-ROM drive. Inserting a
CD in the CD-ROM drive should automatically open the file manager. If
the file manager does not open automatically after a minute or so,
right-click on the CD-ROM icon on your desktop and select Mount
Device. 

In the file manager scroll through the files on the right and look
for the packages you want. 

Now, open a terminal and login as root by typing: 

	cd su
      
 

Next, you will use the rpm command, as shown below. The "ivh" option
that follows the command, basically, installs everything and replaces
any duplicate files that might, for some reason, be on your system
already. In this example, the documentation files, which all begin
with "ydl", would be installed. The string "ydl-*.rpm" tells your
system to install all files that begin with "ydl" and end in ".rpm"
(* is a wildcard and keeps you from having to type out each of the
long file names manually). In place of "ydl" you should put whatever
comes before the first hyphen in the name of the package you want to
install. 

	rpm -ivh ydl-*.rpm
      
 

Press [Enter]. Type exit at the command line and press [Enter] again.
This takes you out of the root login and back to your user account. 

And that is it. The package is installed. 

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