package installer

[Brian Richardson]

On 10-Nov-04, at 8:53 PM, Rick Patterson wrote:

> I am a fairly new user I have installed Fedora Core2 and used it for a 
> little while and would like to add some new programs but don't know 
> how to install RPM's I have down loaded.Along time ago I used a redhat 
> installation and it had a package installer but I can't find one with 
> this one.
> Help please

I've never found the graphical package installer to be particularly 
useful. A simple

rpm -Uhv *.rpm

from the terminal will install/upgrade all RPMs from the current 
directory and display progress as it does so.

Brian
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