Installing packages/application without net connection

[kumarkrishnan]

Hi,
I am new to Linux / Fedora 8.

Kindly guide me how to install the packages (ex: Real Player, wine, etc.,) without net connection. Because, I don't have net connection at home.

Already, I downloaded realplayer from realplayer site and copied it in my system. But, while using add/Remove software in Genome desktop, I could not able to install as like windows application where I can just click next, next and finish.
Please, Guide me how to do it without Net connection.
With Thanks,
KK

[phe]

You have to download the correspondig rpm package (is as msi for Windozs)
Then install it with rpm -ivh ./<packagename.rpm)
Or Yum -localinstall ./<packagename.rpm)

Have look at man pages for yum and rpm also .

RealPlayer will probably need compat-libstdc++-33 installed first...

Some apps require numerous dependencies, which can be a pain without an internet connection...

Wayne

[kumarkrishnan]

Hi,
Thanks for your information.

As I could not able to afford net connection at home, I will be downloading the rpm packages at netcafe and using it at my PC.

How to know the dependencies of package, so that, I can download along with main package? Whether, details will be available in respective websites?

With Thanks,
KK

[phe]

Originally Posted by kumarkrishnan

Hi,
How to know the dependencies of package, so that, I can download along with main package? Whether, details will be available in respective websites?

Simply try to install rpm with "rpm -ivh <packagename.rpm>
When there as missing dependencies, it will report it (so you can go to get these packages, and install them first, and so on, . . . . )

[kumarkrishnan]

Hi,
Thanks for all your information.
Can anybody clear me, what is the difference between
a. rpm -ivh <packagename.rpm> and
b. rpm -ivh ./<packagename.rpm>


Whether following command will work?
yum -localinstall ./<packagename.rpm>

Upto my knowledge, it is installation with help of yum software manager and other is with rpm manager. Is it correct?

With Thanks,
KK

[mholtzman]

Originally Posted by kumarkrishnan

Hi,
Thanks for all your information.
Can anybody clear me, what is the difference between
a. rpm -ivh <packagename.rpm> and
b. rpm -ivh ./<packagename.rpm>


Whether following command will work?
yum -localinstall ./<packagename.rpm>

Upto my knowledge, it is installation with help of yum software manager and other is with rpm manager. Is it correct?

With Thanks,
KK

Hello, to answer for your first question, there is no difference between a. and b. They are both using the rpm command to install the package. The only difference is you are specifying where the rpm file is located but both those command are looking for the rpm file in the current directory.

If you are doing simple local installs of rpms, you wont notice much of a difference between rpm and yum. If you were able to be online, yum could easily pull down any dependencies and updates for you.

[Bslagowski]

Most applications list their dependencies somewhere on their page. For example, lets pretend you're interested in installing Rhythmbox. Google and find their site. Go to the downloads page. It then lists the minimum and optional requirements:

Minimum Requirements

* GNOME 2.10
* GStreamer 0.8 or 0.10.
* Totem-plparser 1.1.5 (from GNOME 2.12)

Optional requirements for additional functionality

* DBus 0.35 - allow other applications to control and query Rhythmbox
* HAL 0.2 - Removable media (e.g. portable audio player) support
* libgpod - enhanced iPod support
* Avahi 0.5 or Howl - DAAP music sharing
* libsoup 2.2 - DAAP music sharing and AudioScrobbler/Last.fm support
* libnotify 0.2.1- Notification bubbles for track changes, podcast downloading and other events
* libmusicbrainz 2.1.0 - Audio cd information lookup

This will save you some time running between the netcafe and your home PC. Also, I know in Ubuntu there is a repository page with links to download all the dependencies, what Ubuntu has them named, etc. I haven't found such a page for Fedora but it's possible that it's out there. If you were able to find that it'd be a lot easier than going to each individual page and hoping you can find the right package.