Re: Absolute Beginner

From: Steven W. Orr (steveo_at_syslang.net)
Date: 08/30/04

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    Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:50:17 -0400 (EDT)
    To: Paul <kelsres@blueyonder.co.uk>
    
    

    On Monday, Aug 30th 2004 at 19:24 +0100, quoth Paul:

    =>I'm keen to start using an alternative to Windows and have installed
    =>Fedora Core 1 to a second hard drive. It looks to be an exciting
    =>prospect, however I could do with some beginners help. I am unsure, at
    =>the moment, as to how I can install further programmes from a CD. Are
    =>there any tutorials for Fedora that I could see ?
    =>I eagerly await your assistance !
    =>Thanks Paul

    If you have a cd that contains rpms then insert the cd into your cdrom and
    say

    mount /mnt/cdrom

    That will mount the cd as a filesystem. You can see what's mounted via

    df -h

    >From there you can cd to /mnt and explore a bit. Hopefully you will find
    some files that end in either .noarch.rpm or .i386.rpm

    You can install the foo package via

    rpm -Uvh foo-1.2-3.i386.rpm

    Of course there's a lot here that I'm not telling you because you didn't
    ask yet. ;-)

    And don't forget to say man rpm

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