Installing Rpms From The Installation Cds - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 Manual

Section 12.7:Installing RPMs From the Installation CDs
1. Determine where you want your RPM to be stored and click on
be downloaded automatically.
2. You can then follow the instructions under
upgrade using the RPM application. See the Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide for
more information on RPM.

12.7 Installing RPMs From the Installation CDs

Place one of the installation CDs in your CD-ROM drive. Inserting a CD in the CD-ROM drive should
automatically open the file manager. If the file manager does not open automatically after a minute or
so, right-click on the CD-ROM icon on your desktop and select Mount Device.
In the file manager screen, click on /cdrom/RedHat/RPMS. Scroll through the files on the right and
look for the packages you want. Package descriptions are available online at http://docs.redhat.com
Now, open a terminal and login as root by typing:
cd su
Next, you will use the rpm command, as shown below. The "ivh" option that follows the command,
basically, installs everything and replaces any duplicate files that might, for some reason, be on your
system already. In this example, the documentation files, which all begin with "rhl", would be in-
stalled. The string "rhl-*.rpm" tells your system to install all files that begin with "rhl" and end in
".rpm" (* is a wildcard and keeps you from having to type out each of the long file names manually).
In place of "rhl" you should put whatever comes before the first hyphen in the name of the package
you want to install.
rpm -ivh rhl-*.rpm
Press . Type exit at the command line and press
[Enter]
login and back to your user account.
And that is it. The package is installed. It should now appear in the appropriate place in the panel's
main menu. You can also open the Run tool (available on the main menu) and type the name of the
program in the dialog box that appears to launch an application.
OK
on the errata page to upgrade RPMs, or
Solution
again. This takes you out of the root
[Enter]
. The RPM you selected will
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