Error installing packages under Fedora

Hi,

I went to the RH button-- Add/Remove applications and i was logged in as root doing this. I tried the Developer or something like that and the kernel the ones i wanted to install and here is the error i got.

Error installing packages
There was an error installing packages.
Exiting.

What is that all about?? Thanx everyone.

[boblucci]

if you want help you have got to start making sense when you post. This post makes no sense at all!

I gave you guys the error message i got. Well that's the error i got there's nothing i can do about that error.

[trickster]

[quote author=dsantamassino link=board=2;threadid=8550;start=0#msg77315 date=1074809563]
I gave you guys the error message i got. Well that's the error i got there's nothing i can do about that error.
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Derek,
Please try to be less rude when asking for help. That increases considerably the chance of someone actually helping.

I checked the Developer or something like that

Please be more specific than this.


I don't use Fedora, so I'm just shooting in the dark; my guess is that you needed a cd or a source to get the rpm's you wanted and it could not find them, so it just exited out.

I would recommend doing it from a shell, using the RPM command. There is a pretty good tutorial on using RPM's, made by PBHarris.

Out of all Redhat 8 and 9 that i tried i never got this error before when adding or removing applications. This is the first time i go it. I looked at the tutorials and i see Shell config but that isn't made by pbharris it's made by someone else. There are 3 parts to it.

[trickster]

http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...play&id=35

I tried the commands 2 different ways and either way i tried i got an error message. I will post my output below..

[dsanta@localhost dsanta]$ rpm -ivh Development Tools.rpm
error: open of Development failed: No such file or directory
error: open of Tools.rpm failed: No such file or directory

[dsanta@localhost dsanta]$ rpm -ivh developmenttoolss.rpm
error: open of developmenttoolss.rpm failed: No such file or directory
[dsanta@localhost dsanta]$

[mojo jojo]

I found this to be realy useful instead of typing Development Packages just type in Dev then push the TAB key and it will fill out the rest

also try out apt

[trickster]

Just out of curiosity, where is the development tools rpm?

I'm not sure about the rpm but the Development Tools and the Kernel Development in Fedora, Redhat 8 and 9 is located under RH menu--> System Settings or System Tools and then Add/Remove packages.

After i typed rpm -ivh Dev and hit TAB it didn't fill anything in for me.