If you're using GNOME or KDE, place the CD-ROM in your CD-ROM
drive. You'll be prompted for the root password (you must be root in
order to install packages). After you type in the root password,
either the Gnome-RPM or the
Kpackage package management program will
start automatically (depending on you GUI environment) and can be used
to install PowerTools.
Refer to the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide for specific instructions on how to use
Gnome-RPM. See http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/kpackage for more
information on how to use Kpackage.
If you are not using GNOME or KDE, you will need to use the shell prompt
to install PowerTools.
First, mount the PowerTools CD-ROM on your CD-ROM drive and use
ls to view its contents. If you need to know how to
mount a CD-ROM, see the section called Mounting the PowerTools CD-ROM.
You will see the following directories: SRPMS and
RedHat. The SRPMS directory
contains the PowerTools source RPMs. The
RedHat/RPMS directory contains the RPMs for the
three specified operating system architectures.
The RedHat/RPMS path is used as a general
example. You should substitute the correct directory for
RedHat/RPMS, depending upon your architecture and
which package you're installing.
cd to the RedHat/RPMS directory:
List the files in the directory with ls
to see the complete list of RPM packages included for
Intel-compatible systems.
You will probably want more information about a specific package
before you can decide whether you want to install it. You can use
RPM's querying capability to find out more
information about the packages, such as the packages' functions and
origination. See Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide for detailed instructions
on how to query packages using RPM.
Alternatively, you can search through the
CONTENTS file to find packages that interest
you. See the section called Navigating the CONTENTS File for instructions
on how to do this.
You can install your selected packages with
RPM. RPM is a
powerful command line-driven package management system. See Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide
for more information on how to use RPM to
install and manage PowerTools packages.
Once you have finished installing your packages, you should unmount
your CD-ROM. If you do not already know how to unmount the CD-ROM
drive, see the section called Unmounting the PowerTools CD-ROM.
