Hello all,

I have a user running a retail copy of RH 5 Ent. and isn't sure what package he needs. He is a developer and when installing other instances of RH he just checked off basically all of the packages under development during the initial installer. Now, he's trying to add packages but they require dependencies and he is not able to auto-satisfy those dependencies.

Is there a way that I can get back to that menu during the initial installation and let him check off all the boxes that he wants, or can I have RH auto-install all packages from DVD or install all required packages from DVD?

Thanks in advance!

I think you can reset /etc/sysconfig/firstboot
RUN_FIRSTBOOT=YES

but it should be possible to use the GUI (if installed), or use

yum grouplist

and he probably wants

Development Libraries
Development Tools

using

yum groupinstall "Development Libraries"
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

What version of Red Hat is he running, i.e. Desktop, Workstation, Server? Depending on the version, some packages will not be available by default. The proper channel will have to be activated. For example, RHEL Desktop will not have a lot of the development and server packages available by default. In order to make those available, one would need to activate the "Workstation" channel.