Wednesday February 02, 2005
Wednesday February 02, 2005
Redhat Distros and specific RHEL 3.0/4.0 packages
Hey guys, If you don't have the user account to access to the Redhat network (RHN), you can fetch the source product from : http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/ and compile the product by yourself then make the installation. Also from this folder http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/ you can update (following same idea) most of the Redhat Distros. Of course this idea is perfect for a single package... What is the Redhat Network ? It's the single way to download and update your RHEL Distro. You can download new ISOs, new packages, or use the "up2date" command to update/upgrade your installed operating system. Note that the ISOs and the pre-compiled packages are not available to the public. This is a comercial product and you'll only have access to theses Redhat products by using an official account (eg. licence). See http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/ to get an overview about the Redhat Network.
Posted at 05:10PM Feb 02, 2005 by jim in Linux |
The RPM command
Hi there, Some comments about my Sunsolve document Infodoc ID: 70394 "How to Install a Package Under Sun[TM] Linux (LX50), Redhat AS 2.1 and 3.0, Suse Linux ES" This is very important to understand that this apply to all RPM enabled operating systems. (See the systems we do support : http://www.sun.com/software/linux/) For example, using any SUSE Distro, you'll probably try to maintain your installation using the GUI named YAST/YAST2 but the things to know is that it will manipulate the system packages using the native RPM commands. That will be the same for "*drake tools" from Mandrake distro or any Gnome RPM management tools. So if you've got a single package to install, you'll probably get some precious time by using the shell and the relevant RPM command and for sure you'll start to understand what's going on. See http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-70394-1&searchclause=%22install%20linux%22
Posted at 04:46PM Feb 02, 2005 by jim in Linux |