🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, JW wrote:

> I am brandy new to Linux and I'm having a difficult time intalling any
> software.  I've downloaded all kinds of stuff and I can not get
> anything to install.  It must be my ignornance!!
> 
> I purchased Redhat 6.0 and it came with a second applications CD. I
> though this would be easier with RPM from RH.
> 
> On the CD is KDE (among other things).  How do I install stuff off of
> the CD?  I tried    rpm -i     in a terminal but it "can not open the
> .rpm file".  
> 
> I'm interested in installing KDE and Staroffice.
> 
> ANY HELP PLEEEEAASSE!!!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JW
> 
> 
JW:

    I have beem here hefore. Two things that come to mind:

A) Your message states " I typed rpm -i in terminal "
   Is taht all you typed. That command must be followed by the path to the
rpm file on your CD-ROM, i.e. /RPMS/KDE/kde.rpm  ( not actual path, just
an example) This leads me to question 2

B) Is your cdrom mounted? It doesn't happen automatically like in WINDOWS,
when you boot into Linux, the cdrom must be " mounted", to be read.
This can be done with the following steps;

( % = command prompt)

%cd /mnt
%ls

  if you dont see an entry here that says cdrom, then

%mkdir cdrom

 do another ls just to be sure the directory is now there

ok, now issue this command

% mount /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom

This command mounts the filesystem from the cdrom harware into the
directory you created, namely /mnt/cdrom

I think redhat 6.0 saves you the first step and creates the dir /mnt/cdrom
upon install. 

now, you can navigate to the cdrom and look for RPM's

%cd /mnt/cdrom
%ls

YOU SHOULD SEE directory lists
IF  ALL went ok


Good luck and don't give up. Linux is good, but not so " point and click
here you idiot" as some other OS's are (wink)

                            WJP