[CentOS] Best way to add/update an installation

Mon Aug 15 20:28:18 UTC 2005
Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>

Many thanks!

Currently I am downloading the "GNOME Desktop Environment", so once that 
is done, I'll try your suggestion.

By the way, I have forgotten where/how to modify the boot process so 
that it brings up GNOME instead of the text mode.

Todd

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:15 -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
>  
>
>>Is "man yum" the best way to "learn" about the suggestions?  Or is
>>there another source?
>>    
>>
>
>There's a couple. Here's one:
>
>http://fedora.ivazquez.net/content/view/26/30/
>
>  
>
>>Since I have the rpm's on CD's, is there a way to set up a list as
>>suggested, but use the local rpm's?
>>    
>>
>
>Copy the packages to a local dir and run yum-arch (C3) or createrepo
>(C4) on the dir. Then modify /etc/yum.conf (C3)
>or /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo (C4) to point to the dir. Note that yum
>*does* recognize the file: protocol (e.g., file:///some/path) so you
>don't need a web or FTP server.
>
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
>CentOS mailing list
>CentOS at centos.org
>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>  
>

-- 
Ariste Software
200 D Street Ext
Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 773-4523

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050815/8e9d840d/attachment-0005.html>