[lug] Installing Software Packages

[Brian Rodriguez]

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Charlie,
the way to accomplish this in Mandrake is to let the system handle it.

Go the the menu in the lower left hand corner, select
Configuration->Packaging->Install Software, enter your root password
when prompted, and you will be presented with the software installation
dialog. You can then browse by category, or just type "OpenOffice" into
the search dialog and hit Search. You then simply select the packages
you want to install and the software manager handles prompting you for
the disks as needed.

The text mode version of this is even easier and faster. Open a terminal
window, "su -" to root, and type

urpmi OpenOffice.org

and you will be promtped for the necessary CDs.

All dependency checking is handled automatically in either method. TO
get a list of the OpenOffice related packages do

urpmi OpenOffice

and since this is not specific enough to select a single package, you
get a list of the possibilities.

By the way, did you ever get my response about the Mandrake 10 CDs? I
sent it directly to you instead of posting to this list and I was
wondering if it got dumped in your spam bucket.

Brian



Charlie Rose wrote:

| Gentlefolk ....  Newbie speaking!
|
| Here I am, trying to install StarOffice 6.0 on my Mandrake 9.0 system,
| and I'm totally baffled. I don't know how to install a software package
| with Linux.
|
| I went to /mnt/cdrom/linux/office60 (in the GUI), and saw a bunch of
| files which included one named "setup" that was identified as an
| executable. To me, running setup would have installed the package ...
| only, by clicking or double-clicking it, it wouldn't run.
|
| The documentation said that I should "open the CD-ROM with execute
| rights". Well, /cdrom has rwxrwxrwx privileges automatically, so I don't
| know what the documentation is talking about. Incidentally,
| /mnt/cdrom/linux has r-xr-xr-x, /mnt/cdrom/linux/office60 has r-xr-xr-x,
| and most all the files therein have r--r--r-- privs except for setup
| which has r-xr-xr-x.
|
| The documentation also says that I can copy the /linux/office60 files to
| a temporary directory on my hard drive, and install from there. From
| /mnt/cdrom/linux/office60, I did a cp * /home/charlie/tmp. Almost all
| the files got copied. I can see those that didn't go in the GUI file
| list in Konqueror, but when I try to copy /these/ files, I'm told they
| don't exist. As a matter of fact, as I navigate around the CD,
| directories keep disappearing on me.
|
| I've looked in the Linux books I have, but none of them tell me how to
| install commercial software packages. If any of you would like to hold
| my hand a bit, or point me to a good reference, I'd really appreciate it!
|
|
|
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