Stuart, Thanks for your answer so far. The only thing I am worrying about is that if I'm installing an rpm "manually", will it be correctly identified as "installed" by the redhat package manager and will I get the updates via RHN? Greetings, Erich -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Sears [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 12:11 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: How to install a specific package? erich.iseli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx enlightened us with the following gems on 08/15/2005 10:43 AM: > Hello list, > > This question might seem really stupid but I've been trying to find how > Redhat lets me search for a substring of a package name, then list me the > packages it found, lets me check the packages I need and prompt me for the > right CD to install. > > - The package manager available on Redhat lets me check some packages and > prompts for the CD(s) BUT doesn't let me search for packages. So if I am > looking for a given library for example, I have to go through the many > categories until eventually I find it. Sometimes I don't even find it > because it is hidden in some arcane place... the easiest way top find out which package provides a given library is rpm --redhatprovides <filename/path> which will take either full paths or just filenames > - on the shell, I can rpm -iv any package, but to do this, I first need to > go through all the CDs and see on what CD the package is available. > I almost can't believe Redhat doesn't provide a tool which is available on > every distro I've met so far (synaptic on Debian, Mandrake package manager > on now Mandriva or yast on Suse)... RH (at least the Enterprise releases) expects you to use up2date and Red Hat Network for this kind of thing - at which point the CDs become unnecessary except for the original installation. system(aka redhat)-config packages sucks if you have done any updates at all since installation. you could always mount the various CDs and generate a package listing for each... (examples for RHEL4, for RHEL3, /media=/mnt) mkdir rhdisks do this for each CD: mount /media/cdrom ls /media/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS > rhdisks/disk<number>.txt once this is done all you need to do is 1. figure out which package you need 2. grep -r 'packagename' rhdisks/ which should return the relevant filename and line. or you could set up a local installserver with your CDs instead. HTH Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX die_if_kernel("Penguin instruction from Penguin mode??!?!", regs); linux-2.2.16/arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c -- 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