Adding/Removing Software - Accessing RPMs from HD rather than CD

[JonR]

Hi,

I'm a Linux novice. I installed Fedora onto my Tosh Sat 3000 with v. few probs.. Only real prob I found was that for whatever reason Add/Remove software, after prompting for the distro CD then fails saying it can't read it. (I think there might be a general prob with reading the distro CDs, it took a good few goes before I managed to persuade the Tosh to boot from it...)

Anyway, I figured the easiest solution was to copy the CDs to the HD, which I've done. How do I get the Add/Remove software interface to look for RPMs in the directories I've created on the HD rather than on the CD?

JonR

[proffit]

hmm.. It would probably be better to fix the problem rather than do a work around. This is linux after all and not windows so if something is broken you have the option of fixing it yourself

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/....cgi?id=109276

this link I believe refers to the problem you are having with the distro CD installing problems. Hope it works for you if you need more help just post

Michael

[kbradl1]

There is an updated package for this in the updates repository. Use either yum or up2date to get it.

[redhat71]

Originally posted by JonR
How do I get the Add/Remove software interface to look for RPMs in the directories I've created on the HD rather than on the CD?

JonR

i don't know if "--tree" is what you want, i only tried "--isodir" before
as long as i can use iso files, i don't extract them and make "tree"

[root@ ~]# system-config-packages --help
Usage: /usr/share/system-config-packages/MainWindow.py [--help] [-t |--tree=PATH] [--isodir=PATH]

[JonR]

Thanks guys. Updated yum and redhat-config-packages-1.2.7-1 and all works fine.