Installing additional packages?

[Liam Strand]

All this is just to get the stuff necessary to compile the airport
driver, sheesh :)

Unless there's an rpm out there somewhere...

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Schweigert [mailto:ken@byte-productions.com]=20
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:55 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Installing additional packages?


On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:42:54PM -0800, Liam Strand wrote:
> Ken,
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> ... Yeah only problem is eventually when I need to install=20
> glibc-devel, it asks for kernel-headers as a dependency and I cant=20
> find that anywhere

Oh yeah, I remember that one is named wierd.  It's called

	glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.24

I bet that fixes it.  :)

-ken


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Schweigert [mailto:ken@byte-productions.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:49 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Installing additional packages?
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:17:54PM -0800, Liam Strand wrote:
> > Ken,
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> > I don't seem to have that installed for whatever reason...  Are=20
> > there
> > any other alternatives?  Something maybe similar to SuSe's YaST?
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> > Liam
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> Liam,
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> Since it's only gcc that you want to install, I would just install it=20
> from the CD.
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> Become the root user, install disk #1, mount the CD, and use RPM to=20
> install the package.  I think the only dependancies are cpp, binutils,

> and glibc-devel.
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> [ken@byteme ken]$ su -
> Password:
> [root@byteme root]# mount /mnt/cdrom/
> [root@byteme root]# rpm -ivh
> /mnt/cdrom/YellowDog/RPMS/gcc-3.2.2-2a.ppc.rpm
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> If you get an error about it requires certain packages, find them on=20
> the CD and install them with the "rpm -ivh" command above.
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> -ken
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> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Schweigert [mailto:ken@byte-productions.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:16 PM
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > Subject: Re: Installing additional packages?
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> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:57:54AM -0800, Liam Strand wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >=20
> > > I have installed Yellow Dog (3.0.1?) on a G3 300mhz ibook and am
> > > very
> > > pleased.
> > >=20
> > > However, during the installation I must have missed something... I

> > > didn't install GCC.  I'd like to now be able to use the 3
> installation
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> > > CD's to install gcc and its dependant packages... I'm hoping=20
> > > there's some sort of gui or console based app to make this easy? =20
> > > Pretty please?
> > > :)
> > >=20
> > > Thanks!
> > > Liam
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> > Liam,
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> > Try Gnome-RPM.
> >=20
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > Starting Gnome-RPM
> >=20
> > To start Gnome-RPM, use one of the following methods:
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> >     * On the GNOME desktop, go to Main Menu Button (on the panel) =
=3D>
> > Programs =3D> System =3D> GnoRPM
> >     * On the KDE desktop, go to Main Menu Button (on the panel) =3D> =

> > System =3D> GnoRPM
> >     * Type gnorpm at a shell prompt.
> > -------------------------------------------------------
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> > For more details:=20
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide
> > /c
> > h-
> > gnorpm.html
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