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16-Dec-2002, 09:29 AM #1
Arrow Red Hat 8.0 ...package managment
Hey

I was wondering ...I installed redhat 8.0 from cd and everything works just fine, but I wanna change the location of the cds. I wanna be able to install packages from a server instead.

does anyone know how to change this....im still new to linux

thanx
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Last edited by reuben420 : 16-Dec-2002 01:38 PM.
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17-Dec-2002, 05:33 AM #2
The easiest way is to run KDE's package manager, kpackage.
Open kpackage and click settings from the menu bar>click "configure kpackage" and you'll see a page called "types" go to RPM and click "location of packages" and fill in the address of the server.
HTH
lynch
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