Publisher's Edition 1

[egobbitz]

Hello,
I received and installed RH9 that came with a book I purchased. I did not get the source or some other things that are released in the "real" distro. How do I get the extra stuff?

Nick

 

[thedaver]

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[flugh]

There's probably a link to the publisher's site listed somewhere in the book. I have a Sam's book that you had to go to the website if you wanted the sample source, binaries, etc.

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JBR

 

[RhythmAce]

The "extra stuff" will take up about 6 CDs. RedHat uses a package manager called RPM. The packages come in two flavors, precompiled binaries and source code. Whether you are using a cd or downloading from an ftp site, the source files are usually in a directory called /SRPMS and the file name will look something like this: "filename.src.rpm". The precompiled binaries, the ones used most often, will look like this: "filename.i386.rpm" or "filename.noarch.rpm". The i386 means it will work on any machine with intel 386 or higher. If it has i686, then it will only work on pentium II or higher. If you have another processor other than intel, then you would get yours from a directory such as /alpha or sparc or whatever. Linux will run on just about anything. If you would like to download the entire distibution, you will need to download the cd image (iso) files usually from the /iso directory. For a complete install, you will just need the 1st three files. The other 3 are source. If you want to download one package at a time then just go to Red Hat's download site or a mirror site and look for a directory with the distributions in them. You will see every package that comes with that distro. Once you have the rpm file, you will use rpm to install it. If you are doing a fresh install of a package, you will use this command:

rpm -ivh packagename.rpm

if you are doing an upgrade, you would use this instead:

rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm

Since the names can get kind of long, you might want to download or copy one file and any dependencies (if needed) to a temporary directory. Then you can use the wildcard:

rpm -ivh *.rpm

To find out more about rpm, type "man rpm". Another good source for finding iso or rpm files is

http://www.rpmfind.net