Installing apps.. VCD's and getting online!

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. D'Agostino:

Saverio D'Agostino wrote:
> I'm now at the stage where my installation has gone smoothly

Welcome aboard! Getting Yellow Dog Linux installed is half the battle.

> I have set up Kppp to operate my dial up connection, but I
> have also a broadband connection which I would like to enable.
> - how do I do this?

I think this question is addressed on our community-run YDL FAQ site -- 
which is unfortunately, not running right now (our Web guy is out of 
town and forgot to feed the little hamster that runs the site). Perhaps 
next week we can point you to the correct FAQ. :-(

> I want to download applications, I have been onto the yum
> website, and am lost at what to download! Also once I do succeed,
> how does one install the applications?

yum is a command line application that will both download and install 
applications that have been appropriately packaged on a yum depository. 
We also have a yum FAQ on the site (golly, we had better get that Web 
hamster back online!). However, YDL has a pretty good description of how 
to use yum on their site:

<http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yum.shtml>

Off the top of my head, a couple of things you have to remember with you 
are [1] you must be logged in as root to use yum, or you will get a 
cryptic error message, [2] a very common and entirely useless error 
message, "IOError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer," indicates that 
the main YDL yum depository is busy, and you should try again later or 
choose a mirror site (search the mailing list archives), and [3] the 
very first command you might try is (as root):

[root]# yum list > yumlist.txt

This command will create a text file ("yumlist.txt") that contains all 
the packages that are available but are not yet installed on your system.

Good luck! I hope others on this list will be able to handle your 
remaining questions.

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>