Fwd: Re: [LUG] first e-mail from Linux

[jon davey <jondavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: [LUG] first e-mail from Linux
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 19:59:28 +0000
From: jon davey <jondavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 6:32 pm, Alex Charrett wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 23:32, Rick Timmis wrote:
> > jon davey wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, all.  This is my first mail from Mandrake, thought that had to be 
> > > listworthy.  I'm damned if I can install softwear from cd though.  I need 
a 
> > > package manager...don't I.
> > > Jon Davey
> >
> > Get a coffee, and some chocolate sit down click the Xterm icon and type 
> > man rpm, read from top to bottom. and you won;t need a package manager 
> > any more
> >
> > Rick.
>
> rpm is a package manager, as it dpkg etc.  Hence rpm standing for "Red
> Hat Package Manager"
>
> Alex.

I've had a look over the man page but found it difficult as I'm not familiar 
with the syntax/format whateveryoucallit. eg if I was trying to explain 
something here using commands opened and closed with ['s but also enclosed 
command examples in ['s it may be a little confusing as to which were part of 
what. I think I might print out the rpm man page.
    Take no notice of my clock BTW.

Did I mention that it's not stuff that was bundled with the instillation disks 
that I want to install but gzip+lame etc that I've downloaded........?
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