Tuesday, March 20, 2007

installing lynx

Not true. I do not mind newbie questions, just don't like spam orcompletely unrelated questions.The file under Redhat 7.2 you are looking for is lynx-2.8.4-17.i386.rpm.It's on a second disk. Assuming you mounted cdrom under /mnt/cdrom youneed to do the followingrpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/lynx-2.8.4-17.i386.rpmto install the application. If it's an upgrade then you follow theinstruction mentioned previously. Also, there is a program called rpmfindwhich helps you find rpms over the net. You may want to install that onetoo, rpmfind-1.7-2.i386.rpm.If there are problems with dependencies then you need to install whateverelse is needed. For new Linux users I strongly recommend to installeverything to prevent from problems with chasing files and theirdependencies. That's much easier in Debian but that one has other problemswhich make it just as bad as Redhat or any other distribution. Too muchautomation can hurt you too.

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