[Cialug] solutions to an annoyance?

[Jeff Davis]

One good thing about the GUI is it will resolve
and then include any dependencies for me.


chris129@cs.iastate.edu wrote:
> It must have it stored as a file somewhere.  You might:
> rpm -qa | rpm -ql | grep `which [prog-name]`  #this might not be correct
> piping.
> That should give you the package which contains the installer program, then you
> can `rpm -ql` that and see what files it possesses (one will likely be the cd
> database).
> I don't usually do complex operations on rpm, so my paramaters may be wrong and
> someone may have to correct me.
> 
> 
> Quoting Jeff Davis <jeff@dynamictelecard.com>:
> 
> 
>>Surely there's a better way to do
>>this and you're the people to ask.
>>
>>I want to install a particular RPM.
>>
>>Since I've checked the md5sum when I
>>burned the CD's I'd prefer to get the
>>RPM off of it and only download it if
>>it is not on the install CD's.
>>
>>What's the easiest way to find out if the
>>rpm is on the distro CD's and which CD?
>>
>>So far the best idea I've heard is to do
>>ls > disk1.txt, etc. and grep when needed.
>>
>>If I use the gui tool it would prompt me to
>>insert the proper disk, how does it know?
>>
>>-Jeff
>>
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