[WBEL-users] Install and Remove Applications

[Robert Moskowitz]

At 02:16 PM 10/21/2004, Paul Pianta wrote:


>I've personally never had any luck with the gui for installing packages 
>because it would bug out on me all the time.
>
>In my search for an alternative I met a new friend - yum. You should meet 
>him too - he is very helpful when it comes to installing packages - and is 
>so nice that he will do most of the work for you. Most of the time you 
>only have to say 3 words to him and you can trust him to get the job done.
>'yum update' is often good to have the latest packages updated on your 
>machine.
>'yum install packagename' will install the package and any dependencies it 
>needs.

OK.  I looked at the GUI Add/Remove packages program and could not find out 
how to add a program it does not list....

So on to yum which makes sense anyway, as that is what controls the updates.

So I want to add sambaconsole from Idealx.org, it is NOT yet part of the 
standard Samba package (unlike Ideals's tools).

I have no idea what the package name is.  I see the rpm on their site, 
though and they have the string 'sambaconsole' in the file name.  They also 
mention it is built on 'imc' that I do not find on my system.

SO:

Do I just run:

yum install sambaconsole

And expect the servers to find this on idealx's site?  Will it 
automatically resolve dependances and get imc as well?

Or do I fetch these via http, and store them in the /var/cache/yum 
directory first?  Then how would updates be handled?

Oh, a second question about yum.  Somewhere in all my readings I noted that 
updates will NOT be installed if you have modified the packages conf files...

Whow!  This has to be wrong!  I can see that I COULD have done bind 
differently and modified the named-exceptions.conf file (or whatever it is 
called) instead of named.conf, but neither openldab nor samba gives me 
anyway to configure them (that I have discovered) that does not modify the 
supplied configs.  And if is were the case, would not these programs tell 
you to modify files other than the supplied configs????