tony... thanks for the response... however, we don't want to/can't use the command line because the app appears to get into all kinds of dependency issues... we were hoping that the gnome "package manager" gui app would simply allow us to specify the given app to install/update, and it would take care of the required dependencies... as an example, installing mysql is going to require ~20-30 additional apps due to requirements/dependencies... we don't want to be doing this by command line... if you know of a way to do this via th ecommand line.. let us know!!! thanks bruce bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Anthony E. Greene Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:14 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: remote installation/update using gnome/rh8.0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Mar-2004/23:56 -0800, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >hi... > >we're curious... trying to do an install of some additional apps on a remote >box. we're using vncserver and the box has rh8.0/gnome. when we specify the >app (mysql) to install, the gnome package manager prompts for the ISO disk >to be placed in the CD. We'd prefer to be able to point the app to a >directory/ftp server to extract the appropriate files... is there a way to >do this... Make the RPM available via HTTP or FTP and use rpm on the command line to download and install it in a single step: rpm -ivh http://servername/filename.rpm or rpm --install --verbose --hash http://servername/filename.rpm Or copy the RPM to the server using Samba or NFS, then install it locally using rpm on the command line: rpm -ivh /path/to/filename.rpm I think the graphical package managers can be told where to look for RPMs. But if you already know where the file is, why not simply specify the location on the command line instead of spending time trying to reconfigure a GUI app? Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:Anthony%20E.%20Greene%20%3Cagreene@xxxxxxxxx%3E> AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:agreene@xxxxxxxxx> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQFAUXFPpCpg3WyUI50RAkWdAJ9gQ3pzPIvZ5wREHh8Q+e2XjwC+gQCgy38J ukry1BQwWyob2nakFjdQvIM= =Y0XP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
