[PLUG] Red Hat ? How to find a file on a CDROM

Rich Burroughs rich at paranoid.org
Wed Feb 2 02:15:10 UTC 2005


Norm Coder wrote:
> I have been asked to install a couple program from the Red Hat WS3 CDROM.
> When I ran a find -name 'tcl-devel*' on each CD and came up with nothing.
> Then I realized the files I was looking for must be embedded in an .rpm
> file. My first question is where would I find the following files? Is there
> a way to search for them on the CD other than what I did? I also know I
> should be able to install these programs using System Settings, Add/Remove
> Applications. In case that didn't work I wanted to know the other way using
> the rpm -ivh command.

Hey Norm,

I'm not sure what version of RedHat you're using, but if it supports yum 
then that's a really easy way to install packages. Just get a root shell 
and type:

yum install tcl-devel


Rich





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