package installer

[Douglas Furlong]

Brian Richardson wrote:

>
> 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.

Rick may be refering to a VERY old gui RPM package manager, I think it 
was called gnorpm or some thing similar, it came with the very early 
(but not incredibly early) redhat distrobutions, I think it was removed 
after RedHat 8, but don't quote me on that.

It was very handy, for people that don't like the terminal....

Dougie