[plug] RPM- "glint"

[John Summerfield]

> 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.
> 
glint is dead. Long live gnorpm

> 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.

RHL updates are mirrored at ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/updates/6
.0


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