Hi all,
I am getting a new desktop probably today, and is going to install F10 on it. However my problem is I don't have an internet connection at home. So is there a way to apply updates? I did find some suggestions in the archives. Most said to download all the updates onto some media and use rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Even if I overlook the size of the downloads, this won't work if I were to install new packages. How would dependency resolution work in that case? Is there any way I can find that out beforehand and download all the dependency pacakges as well?
The only machines with an internet connection I have access to, are at the university. However since all of them run Ubuntu, doing an rpm query on the new package is not feasible. Any suggestions?
suvayu ali wrote:
Hi all,
I am getting a new desktop probably today, and is going to install F10 on it. However my problem is I don't have an internet connection at home. So is there a way to apply updates? I did find some suggestions in the archives. Most said to download all the updates onto some media and use rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Even if I overlook the size of the downloads, this won't work if I were to install new packages. How would dependency resolution work in that case? Is there any way I can find that out beforehand and download all the dependency pacakges as well?
The only machines with an internet connection I have access to, are at the university. However since all of them run Ubuntu, doing an rpm query on the new package is not feasible. Any suggestions?
You can make a local yum repo with the installation DVD ISO or maybe even the Fedora Spins to get the newer rpms:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-9893
John Brier
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:49:41 -0800, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com wrote:
The only machines with an internet connection I have access to, are at the university. However since all of them run Ubuntu, doing an rpm query on the new package is not feasible. Any suggestions?
I use rsync to mirror the parts I want at work (since I run Fedora there) and then I bring home the new stuff (using find and sha1sums to find new stuff) on a usb drive. Even if you use Ubuntu at the office you should be able to mirror stuff there.
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:49 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
I am getting a new desktop probably today, and is going to install F10 on it. However my problem is I don't have an internet connection at home. So is there a way to apply updates? I did find some suggestions in the archives. Most said to download all the updates onto some media and use rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Even if I overlook the size of the downloads, this won't work if I were to install new packages. How would dependency resolution work in that case? Is there any way I can find that out beforehand and download all the dependency pacakges as well?
Yup. Install gnome-packagekit-extra and use the service pack creator[1] on a live CD.
Richard.
First of all sorry for not replying sooner. I had gone to get the desktop. ^_^ Got it all, except the CPU, placed a backorder for that. :P
2008/12/22 John Brier jbrier@redhat.com
suvayu ali wrote:
Hi all,
I am getting a new desktop probably today, and is going to install F10 on it. However my problem is I don't have an internet connection at home. So is there a way to apply updates? I did find some suggestions in the archives. Most said to download all the updates onto some media and use rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Even if I overlook the size of the downloads, this won't work if I were to install new packages. How would dependency resolution work in that case? Is there any way I can find that out beforehand and download all the dependency pacakges as well?
The only machines with an internet connection I have access to, are at the university. However since all of them run Ubuntu, doing an rpm query on the new package is not feasible. Any suggestions?
You can make a local yum repo with the installation DVD ISO or maybe even the Fedora Spins to get the newer rpms:
Thats a very simple and effective way to do it. However for me to have the updated packages or any new packages I will have to go for the spins. But all of the spins are offered as torrents, and the university blocks all torrent downloads. If only the spins were mirrored somewhere ....
John Brier
... How would dependency resolution work in that case? Is there any way I can find that out beforehand and download all the dependency pacakges as well?
Yup. Install gnome-packagekit-extra and use the service pack creator[1] on a live CD.
Richard.
After I read your reply, I looked at your blog post about this. Sounds very useful, specially for my case. How would this work exactly in my case, since I would be downloading the updates / new packages on Ubuntu?
btw, thanks for all the worthwhile suggestions. I 'll have to do some more reading on all these.
2008/12/24 Richard Hughes hughsient@gmail.com
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 12:55 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
How would this work exactly in my case, since I would be downloading the updates / new packages on Ubuntu?
You can't do it with cross distro versions. You're best best woul dbe to use a fedora live CD.
yes that seems like the most simple solution for me at the time. I already have a F10 live CD lying around.
Thanks a lot everyone. :)
Richard.
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