installing multiple packages
 

What is the easiest way to copy and install multiple packages (rpm). right now, I copy the packe to my /home directory then use rpm -ivh package, do this until all are done. Very cumbersome.

Thanks in advance.

Hi.

To install all the rpms in a folder at the same time, do:

rpm -ivh *.rpm

Dave

Well, thanks for your reply, but I was not clear enough. To get those rpms in a folder, I must click and save each one separately. Is there a way to download them all at once?

Where are you copying them from? CD? FTP?

Dave

Again sorry for not being clearer. FTP

Cool.

You can either use 'ftp' from the command line and download all rpms in the remote directory with:
mget *.rpm

or you could use Konqueror in KDE or Nautilus in Gnome and just drag and drop the files you want.

Dave

Thanks Konqueror did the job.

BTW, if I type ftp ftp://ftp.mirror....... It says cannot find file. How can I get the ip address to enter as the ftp command option?

Use an ftp client, like iglooftp.
Also u can use wget <URL> !

Thank you. It works.

You don't need the "ftp://" part. That's just used by web browsers to distingish ftp from http etc.

Dave

For wget you must specify ftp:// or http://