[wplug] URPMI Support for RedHat

[John Harrold]

Sometime in March Albert Whale assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I am running Mandrake, and now need to install a few packages on RedHat.
| 
| While I can go to RPMFIND.NET and Get the packages myself, I am 
| wondering if Redhat has installed an RPM Retrieval tools like urpmi for 
| Mandrake? 
| 
| Any suggestions?

with fedora, you can just use up2date to access yum and apt repositories. i
followed the instructions in this page:
http://www.xades.com/proj/fedora_repos.html

specifically the section "Use these repositories with up2date/RHN"

i modified the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file as they said and i tried
running:

     up2date --nox -i mplayer

to install mplayer, then it said something like:

     Your Update Agent options specify that you want to use GPG.

     To install the key, run the following as root:

         rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY

in /usr/share/rhn/, there were three flies with RPM-GPG-KEY prefixes so i
ran rpm --import on all three of them. then i reran the 'up2date' command
above and it downloaded the mplayer package and told me it didn't have a
gpg key and could not install it :). then i reran it with the --nosig
option:

     up2date --nox --nosig -i mplayer

and it downloaded a lot of crap and installed it. so it seems to work well with
the yum stuff. i don't really know what the fundamental difference is between
yum and apt.


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