Redhat installation source change

[Rob Sutherland]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:31:58 -0400
Jing Su <jingsu-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> > Is it just me, or is Redhat a terrible fuckin' distro? How the hell do I
> > change my installation source settings... I installed of a boot cd but
> > now want to add packages with an ftp source.
> 
> Well, personally I like to download the package file first before
> installing it, just to make sure it's fully available and not corrupted.
> You can easily get files from FTP through ncftp or wget.  ncftp is a very
> nice client that supports wildcards.
> 
> However, you can do (as described in 'man rpm')
> rpm -Uvh ftp://USER:PASSWORD-0+c7FTDAQ9w@public.gmane.org:PORT/path/to/package.rpm

You can also install apt or yum for RH, links to articles at

http://www.memeshadow.net/multi/html/index.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=Auto-update

Rob 


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