[SOLVED] Need help, How to install rest packages from Fedora 17 DVD?

[DanielFed]

Hello all,
I installed Fedora 17 today and I was expected to have some software installed, like Blender, Inkscape, but nothing actually there, I noticed to DVD file that (I burned to dvd from iso ~3.6 GB for 32bit ) there is a "Package" folder that has some extras, I then tried to find a way that may I could install other packages.

also I follow this description
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...enabling-repos

but I was not able to do local dvd repository.

Can anyone please guide, THANKS.

[Fenrin]

Hello,

if your internet connection is fast enough, you could just install it via yum from terminal:

su
yum install inkscape blender

Fedora has also a graphical software installation tool (PackageKit, in gnome desktop it's in the menu as "Add/Remove Software"), if you prefer that.

you didn't ask for it, but for multimedia codecs and such things you can install the rpmfusion repo:

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Autoplus can also be helpful for Fedora users.

[marko]

The instructions in
18.3.1.2. Using a Fedora Installation DVD as a Software Repository

should be the right thing to do to get the packages off the DVD as a repository. I have some problems with their example (for example there's no such DVD iso with "Server" in the name) and some of their examples are contrived and don't match what you'd really do.

One tip, I suspect you just have a small error in the 'baseurl'. The baseurl should be set up so that if you do a file listing in the mount point after the iso file is mounted you should see a child directory named "repodata". If you don't see repodata in the iso file mount point then the mount point is wrong.

Do not literally copy the example they showed in section 5c of 18.3.1.2 as there will not be a "Server"
child directory in the DVD iso you are using. I would think you'd want the dvd.repo fille contents to be like (note that the baseurl is simply file:///mnt/repo ) this:

[dvd]
baseurl=file:///mnt/repo
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

At that point, with the DVD iso file mounted as explained in that URL you quoted, you can install packages from the iso file like this:

yum install --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=dvd blender

using blender as the package example and the disablerepo and enablerepo done to prevent yum from trying the internet repos but only looking to the DVD file

[DanielFed]

Originally Posted by marko

The instructions in
18.3.1.2. Using a Fedora Installation DVD as a Software Repository

should be the right thing to do to get the packages off the DVD as a repository. I have some problems with their example (for example there's no such DVD iso with "Server" in the name) and some of their examples are contrived and don't match what you'd really do.

One tip, I suspect you just have a small error in the 'baseurl'. The baseurl should be set up so that if you do a file listing in the mount point after the iso file is mounted you should see a child directory named "repodata". If you don't see repodata in the iso file mount point then the mount point is wrong.

Do not literally copy the example they showed in section 5c of 18.3.1.2 as there will not be a "Server"
child directory in the DVD iso you are using. I would think you'd want the dvd.repo fille contents to be like (note that the baseurl is simply file:///mnt/repo ) this:

[dvd]
baseurl=file:///mnt/repo
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

At that point, with the DVD iso file mounted as explained in that URL you quoted, you can install packages from the iso file like this:


using blender as the package example and the disablerepo and enablerepo done to prevent yum from trying the internet repos but only looking to the DVD file

Thank you, sorry for late reply,
I am actually anew user in linux, but I could make a repo with iso image file, but it sends error

yum install --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=dvd blender
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Repository 'dvd' is missing name in configuration, using id
No package blender available.
Error: Nothing to do

also I tried using "Add/Remove software" but i can't install anything offline,

next thing is that, i see packages in "Packages" directory of iso and there are XFCE and KDE desktop I really want all desktop installed, Can you please guide me.
Thanks

---------- Post added at 08:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:52 AM ----------

I finally could install XFCE-Desktop From dvd (as source), but I can not install KDE-Dektop. and other tools when I trying to install from "add /remove software" after applying it does nothing, weird.
And seems on DVD Blender does not exist, so I had to get from internet.

[marko]

Originally Posted by DanielFed

Thank you, sorry for late reply,
I am actually anew user in linux, but I could make a repo with iso image file, but it sends error

yum install --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=dvd blender
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Repository 'dvd' is missing name in configuration, using id
No package blender available.
Error: Nothing to do

also I tried using "Add/Remove software" but i can't install anything offline,

next thing is that, i see packages in "Packages" directory of iso and there are XFCE and KDE desktop I really want all desktop installed, Can you please guide me.
Thanks

Ok, that must mean that "blender" isn't included on the DVD packages, not much we can do about that.

When you have the DVD mounted, you can install KDE with:

yum groupinstall --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=dvd "KDE Software Compilation"

and similarly for XFCE:

yum groupinstall --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=dvd Xfce

[DanielFed]

Many THANKS for guides.
Thank you Marko, completely installed from DVD iso and i have 3 nice dektop environment.
Good lucks.

[droidhacker]

yum --disablerepo=* localinstall /path/to/dvd/packages/directory/* --disable-broken
Note: above should install every single package on the dvd.

You're trying specifically to install blender? Is it even ON the dvd? Many Fedora packages are only available from online repositories.