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Getting Started[an error occurred while processing this directive]: What now?


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Installing a Package

There are two separate directories on the MkLinux DR3 CD that contain packages that you can install. Assuming that you mounted the CD under /mnt/cdrom, the main packages directory will be here:

/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS

The extra packages will be here:

/mnt/cdrom/extra/RPMS

For example, if you want to install the "zsh" package, you should issue the following commands (as root):

cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS # change directory to the packages dir

rpm -ihv zsh-3.0.5-1b.ppc.rpm # install the zsh package

A complete listing and description of the main packages is in the file:

/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/rpmcontents.gz

Similarly, there is a listing of the extra packages:

/mnt/cdrom/extras/rpmcontents.gz

These rpmcontents files are compressed text files. To view them, issue a command such as this:

zless /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/rpmcontents.gz

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