-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Apt has been adapted to work with rpm packages on redhat. Try http://www.freshrpms.net and a few others whose URLs have escaped my memory at the moment, but that one seemed to be one of the best before I went and switched my box to Debian. HTH, PRINCE Thus spake Martin McCormick: # I just got introduced to a redhat system that I am going to # need at work to run some applications. I am familiar with Debian and # its dselect utility for managing Debian packages, but I don't yet know # rpm for doing similar things in redhat. It does look, from the # manual, a lot like dselect, but I haven't hit the magic syntax yet for # making it hit its default download sites to look for packages. What I # am trying at first is to get ntpd working. If I use the command # # rpm -i ntpd # # it just tells me it can't find the file. Yup that's the whole idea. # It needs to find the package and install it. # # The manual also says that you can state the file name as a URL # or ftp link, but I bet there is a function like apt that has a list of # preferred sources that are checked for the main treasure trove of # redhat packages. I shouldn't have to know the url unless it is not # part of the normal redhat network. # # Any suggestions are appreciated so I can more or less get # going here and not waste so much time looking for the power button so # to speak. # # Are there any of the text commands for rpm that are # particularly good to know? I was really happy to learn a couple of # years ago that you could use the / in dselect's user interface to # locate packages whose names you might partly know. It has certainly # made getting new packages a snap in Debian. # # Many thanks to all. # # Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK # OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group # # # _______________________________________________ # # Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx # https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtBW6Al2SNUPt1I8RAiamAJsHlYA9XOEPx2xygARMt7g5QVcuHwCfTmAf Ns08CWwXavoI02C3flsvK6Q= =NAnN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list