Topic: installing rpms

[adam]

This is a newbie question but i want to install some of the contributed packages on this site. i am at the command line and i have no idea what to do could anybody point me to a faq or another post about this.  i would really like to use this system but it requires that i get dns running on my e-smith.  This would really help me out thanks

[Charlie Brady]

adam wrote:

> This is a newbie question but i want to install some of the
> contributed packages on this site. i am at the command line and
> i have no idea what to do could anybody point me to a faq or
> another post about this.

See my previous post.

> i would really like to use this
> system but it requires that i get dns running on my e-smith.

You don't really want to do that. See this post for reasons:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=9615.msg36538#msg36538

Setting up public DNS servers is not a job for a newbie, IMO. YMMV.

Regards

Charlie