Are you trying to get RPMs off of a Red Hat installation CD?  The RPMs
are usually in /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS, if you mount your cd-rom on
/mnt/cdrom.  When installing RPMs, I do:

rpm -Uvh <name>.rpm

Good luck,



Hidong



Lee Ward wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to install the RPMs for Gnome. However, when I type rpm -i ... and 
>hit enter all it does is bring up another prompt. From what I can tell, it's not 
>installing. What do I do. Also, whn I used glint in X, I tried to look at the 
>pacakges on my CD-ROM it says "/mnt/cdrom/SRPMS conatins no RPMs" I know that's the 
>right path because I configured the path myself. What did I do wrong?
> 
> Thanks for putting up with a newbie.
> 
> Lee Ward
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