Tools to instal extra packages?

[Lowell Premer]

to page: ls <desired large dir to examine> | more
to scroll up in console: <shift+page up>

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Brian Young wrote:

> RPM should do fine for you.  Insert your install disk,
> 
> $cd /mnt/cdrom/YellowDog/ppc/
> 
> and then run the ls command.  It will give a list of the RPMs.  Then, as
> root,
> 
> $rpm -ivh nameofdesiredRPMpackage
> 
> Oh, and if someone wants to chime in with a way to make ls let you page
> through it rather than barfing the entire list out, please, as this
> gentleman is not in X, and cannot scroll up.  I'd like to know too, because
> I do a lot of work outside of X.  Hope this answers your question!
> 
> -Brian Young
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I managed to install on an oldworld 6400.  It seems you need
> > to do "custom" install, because "default" does not initialise
> > the disks properly.
> > 
> > I still run in text mode.
> > What I would like to do now is adding packages like X windows,
> > KDE.  I think there is some tool available that was used to install
> > the system, but do not know the name of it.  I already found
> > Xconfigurator, which gives me such windows like the installer
> > did.
> > 
> > I do not find linuxconf either, is there a tool that does the same
> > thing?
> > 
> > 
> > Marc
> > 
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