How to Install Additional Packages

JonBL · 10-27-2006, 06:23 AM

I downloaded 5 CD's for my FC5 distribution, then performed the "desktop" install. Now, I want to install a web site development package, which I assume will be somewhere on one of the CD's.

I'm guessing Package Manager is what would do this, but "Development" -> "Web Development" tells me "These packages are helpful when developing web applications or web pages", but nothing is listed to install ("Optional packages" is disabled). Clicking "Apply" results in "No software selected for installation or removal."

On Red Hat 8, I could select an optional package, be told which CD to install, and installation proceeded. What's the procedure with FC5?

benjithegreat98 · 10-27-2006, 09:34 AM

If you have a good internet speed you can use yumex. To install that type "yum install yumex" . It will be in your menu after that or you can just type yumex to bring it up. That will give you a graphic list of packages and also some nice stuff from Fedora Extras. If you have any repos setup like Livna it will show what you can download from there as well.

Also if you happen to know the name of the package you can type "yum install packagename"

JonBL · 10-27-2006, 04:35 PM

thanks benjithehreat98 - that works fine. I'm surprised it's not in the distro...

Regards,
Jon

Mudhoney · 10-29-2006, 10:55 PM

Any way to do this off the install CDs, as my yum isn't currently working due to HTTP proxy issues? I tried booting off the install CDs and selecting upgrade but that didn't help. I can grab the individual packages manually if needed.

benjithegreat98 · 10-29-2006, 11:25 PM

Yes, if you know the name of the package you need you can just use rpm to install it. Just mount the CD, go to the folder with the rpms and do an "rpm -ihv packagename.rpm"

JonBL · 10-30-2006, 01:46 AM

Is there some way of getting a list of the packages on the CD's, and which CD they're on? This would save a lot of time mounting and unmounting CD's looking for a package.

Mudhoney · 10-30-2006, 11:22 PM

the package I'm trying to install is xinetd. Got it going from source but I sorta wonder why it isn't part of the default build!

benjithegreat98 · 10-30-2006, 11:35 PM

"yum install xinetd" should have worked. That's odd that it did not.

Mudhoney · 10-31-2006, 11:28 PM

the reason it did not is because yum doesn't work. the reason yum doesn't work is because I can't make it work with my company's accursed web proxy. Yes, I've tried the Proxy command stuff in the config file - no luck.