Hey all,

I just installed FC5. Im used to fc4 and couldnt figure out how to install packages i missed during initial install. I tried to use add/remove software to install packages but that kept trying to download them off of the net rather than using the cds. I installed kyum to see if that would work better but that wants to install them off of the net too. I also tried disconnecting from the net then trying but that doesnt work at all. I need to install the packages just off of the cds if someone can help me set that up. Thanks for your help in advance.

Take a look here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=428924
And
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=434670

cool thanks for the info. how do i make it work for cd installation?
What do i replace the following with?

DVD]
name=Fedora DVD
baseurl=file:///media/disk/
enabled=1

That gives me the following error. Could someone please helpme figure out whats wrong?

Process 3864 (yum) has been started.
Please be patient, this may be a lengthy operation...

(Command being executed: yum -y info available).

*** file:///media/disk/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
*** Trying other mirror.
*** Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from DVD: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Process exited normally with code 1.

Ive been strugling with this since last night and all day today. Everything i looked up on the net didnt work. someone please help? Very fustrated and about ready to give up here.

Hi,

my sis wrote a bit of a howto here.

It cannot read directly from the CD, but the workaround is copying the rpms onto the hardisk, then using the package manager from that.

http://opensourceatwork.blogspot.com...e-package.html


Regards,
Edmund

Thanks for the info. Very usefull. Even though i gave up on that a while ago lol. I went back to FC4 and im gona stick to it.