On 17-Apr-00 Ragnar Wiencke opined:
> Hi there.
>
> I ran the Server installation from the Rh 6.1 CD. Everything went
> smoothly
> until I type 'startx' and the machine told me so to say that X was not
> installed. Also did the install.log file.
>
> Next I mounted the CD and from the SRPMS folder I did this -
> 'rpm -U -h -v X*' and on the monitor the names of the packages and hash
> icons were displayd and I smiled for a while at least.
>
> When I tried to start the Xconfigurator there was no Xconfiguator and the
> command rpm -q Xconfigurator convinced me whith the message 'package
> Xconfigurator is not installed'
>
> Now I need to know, am I doing the right thing which just does not work
> or
> am I doing the wrong thing which obviously does not work.
Close. You need to go into the RPMS folder, not SRPMS.
The SRPMS are source files. They'll show an install happeneing. But,
nothing will be compiled to run.
RPMS files are ready-to-run binaries (sometimes require some configuring)
and are what you're looking for.
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