[plug] RPM- "glint"

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Len Bird wrote:

> Can anyone lighten my darkness a bit: I had been using RH 5.2 which
> supported a reasonably user friendly utility from xterm called "glint"
> This invoked a program that did the legwork for xxxxxx.rpm files. I now
> have RH ver 6.0 which calls Gnome by default in response to "startx"
> Gnome has never heard of "glint" but no doubt there is some kind of
> alternative. Problem is that I don't know about it. Can anyone help.

I believe thT RedHat have ditrched glint in favour of GNORpm ... try that
from the system menu.
 
> Point-2 Gnome as parcelled with the RH-6 CD that I have seems to be
> prone to fits of bad temper, and more or less locks up the system. It
> will support more than the one window, and there are a number of other
> bugs. I believe that there is an update to RH-6 which is supposed to fix
> some at least of these problems.

... You can get all the RedHat-6.0 upf\dates from
mirror.aarnet.edu /pub/redhat/ .... you'll have to work out the rest.


Yours Tony.