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I am a unix admin, but new to Linux

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trunix

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I am a unix admin, but new to Linux. I have inherited a Red Hat server and need to install some packages which were not included in the original installation. I would normally use something like pkgadd on Solaris, but can't find anything similar on Red Hat. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
The RedHat package manager is invoked as "rpm".

You can probably get better information from the man page than I could give you here. ______________________________________________________________________
Perfection in engineering does not happen when there is nothing more to add.
Rather it happens when there is nothing more to take away.
 
Redhat uses RPM packages. for more details
>man rpm

to install a package
>rpm -i <package name>.rpm

To see what packages are available on the redhat CD's I believe the path is
/mnt/cd/RedHat/RPMS/
provided your cd is mounted to /mnt/cd/
 
Thanks everyone, your replies are very useful.
I have now located and installed my missing package.
 
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