On using autorpm in interactive mode:
My suggestion is that you only run autorpm in non-interactive mode. This is
done by either letting it run as a cron job at midnight or by typing 'autorpm'
as root from a shell. This is probably the best and easiest way to run it,
especially for people not completely comfortable with Linux in general and RPM
specifically.
If you'd like to see what autorpm can do in interactive mode, type 'autorpm
-i' This will present the user with a menu similar to the Red Hat installation
menu with many choices of packages to install. You do not need to
select/install any of these packages! As I stated these are mostly X servers
for video cards other than what you have installed. I can guarantee that the
X server for your video card will be installed if you run autorpm in
non-interactive mode, assuming, of course, that you already have X windows
running on your machine.
Also, the mail that autorpm sends to mail is a little confusing. For example,
here's the mail I've received:
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AutoRPM 1.6.1 on sapphire.fnal.gov started Thu Jan 21 08:46:52 CST 1999
Comparing to locally installed RPMs
Connecting to linux.fnal.gov...
Logging in as anonymous
Listing Directory: /linux/current/i386/Fermi/addons/RPMS/
xterm-color-1.1-6 is a new RPM and could be installed.
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Finished Thu Jan 21 08:46:55 CST 1999
It claims that xterm-color is new and could be installed... This is
misleading. (We didn't write autorpm, so it's not our fault!) xterm-color
really was installed! To verify this:
# rpm -q xterm-color
xterm-color-1.1-6
I may change this wording if it's still in the next release of autorpm.
Cheers,
Dan
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