[TriLUG] good newbie book

[Sinner from the Prairy]

>From: Mike Broome <mbroome at employees.org>

>But we were wondering if there is a way of doing that without leaving
>the confines of rpm.  Or if there's a practical way of doing that for
>people who don't write shell scripts.  It seems like the RH installer
>(Anaconda?) does this for you when you get to the end of the install and
>it tells about the dependencies you are missing and can automagically
>install the needed rpms.  Anyone know if there's anyway to get that
>functionality (or get the rpm install part of the installer) after the
>initial install?

Try URPMI

This is the true apt-get system for RPM-based Linux.

For example, on Mandrake I upgraded to KDE 2.2.2 doing the following:

1.- Download all KDE pakages, qt, arts... to /opt/kde-2.2.2
2.- Enter runlevel 3 (because my desktop is KDE and it is a bad thing to run 
an application while you are upgrading it)
3.- Add this directory to URPMI list of software sources : urpmi.addsource 
kde2.2.2 file://opt/kde-2.2.2
4.- Update KDE : urpmi --auto-select (or something like this. Now I'm on Red 
Hat)
5.- change to runlevel 5 and enter to KDE

Easy, isn't it? Just like doing "apt-get upgrade kde" on Debian



Salut,
Sinner

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