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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks JABR. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I didn't think to check the command line interface, I guess it is the Windows box I'm using for email :-)</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Jerry Feldman <Jerry.Feldman@algorithmics.com></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: John Abreau [<A HREF="mailto:john.abreau@zuken.com">mailto:john.abreau@zuken.com</A>] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:10 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Jerry Feldman</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: discuss@blu.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: Quick Red Hat/Fedora question</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:07 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I have an RHEL system with the installation CD image in a directory,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> and I don't happen to have a CD. I want to install some packages from</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> that directory using the Red Hat "Add/Remove Applications" menu item.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I know I can simply use the RPM command manually. In SuSE systems, all</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> one needs to do is to set up an installation source, but I did not see</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> where I could add a pointer to the directory in Red Hat. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I imagine it's similar to Fedora. On Fedora, you can run the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>package manager from the command line, which makes available </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>two command-line options for pointing it to the hard drive </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>instead of the CD/DVD drive. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>One was --isodir; I don't recall the other one offhand. You'd </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>run it as </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2> system-config-packages --isodir /path/to/iso/images</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>where the ISO image(s) are in /path/to/iso/images/*.iso</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The second option you'd point to the i386 directory within </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the CD/DVD file system. It was probably something like --tree </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>or --packagedir</FONT>
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