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pika_pika
04-09-2001, 04:20 PM
Someone on one of my last posts suggested me using some package manager to help me search for applications on my CD distribution.

Which ones should I use, and how would I go about searching the two cds for a particular package? IE: proftp or wuftp? :confused:
mychl
04-09-2001, 04:33 PM
What distro you got???

There are different package managers in each distro...I think...

Anyway, it could be in a configuration system of some sort. I use Suse and it has a package manager within Yast, the configuration utility that it comes with. There is also a link on my task bar that will take me to an rpm manager, i'm at work though so can't give you specifics. When you go to run these you have to give root password, then it will ask for the CDs, it scans whats abvailable, and whats installed and gives you an option of uninstalling or installing certain packages.

Good Luck
pika_pika
04-09-2001, 10:58 PM
Sorry bout that! Sometimes I forget I'm not on the mandrake users board when posting! Mandrake 7.2.

Is the installer the same as a package manager? I know when I installed Suse for the first time it used yast, but I thought that was just for installation. If anybody knows what the one for Mandrake is and how to excute/use it, that would be great! :^)
Tyr-7BE
04-09-2001, 11:26 PM
It's the same as the installer, and it isn't. The installer will call the package manager to actually extract the software from the CD's and install it. You can still install stuff with the package manager.
If you're using Mandy, you're pretty much stuck with RPMs (RedHat Package Management). Mandrake makes them pretty intuitive. Either double click on a .rpm file, or type "man rpm" at the command prompt.
bdg1983
04-10-2001, 05:59 AM
Why not just mount the CD's, change to the appropriate directory on the CD that contains all the rpm packages and create a text file from the directory listing.

mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/path/to/rpms
ls -al > ~/rpmlist

Then you have a text file that contains all the rpm's and you can use commands such as 'grep' to search for proftp from within the rpmlist file.