dos2umix, and rpmfind.

jwantz at hpcc.noaa.gov jwantz at hpcc.noaa.gov
Wed Jul 31 09:54:45 EDT 2002


Uh, Ed.  This is actually my fault.  I installed server on his system 
rather than custom and going to the "all" tab.  My bad.

     Jim Wantz WB0TFK
On Mon, 29 Jul 
2002, Edward L. Barnes wrote:

> Hi Mark.
> As you probably likely already know from having installed operating 
> systems in the past, the tools available to you after that operating 
> system is installed will differ based upon the choices you made at the 
> time of installation.
> Of course, I'm asumming you have experience in this regard which I'm not 
> sure if I should or not, nevertheless...
> So, depending upon the choices you made during your Red Hat install will 
> dictate whether the unix2dos and dos2unix packages are available to you.
> For example, if you do a typical server install and install all the 
> package groups listed with no customization you will not get dos2unix 
> and unix2dos as a part of the deal, 
> Of course, custom is most flexible and you'll get it if you select it , 
> and you'd of course get both of them if you choose an "everything, 
> custom install", sorry I'm not sure if one would get dos2unix and 
> unix2dos with either the workstation install or the notebook install 
> options respecti vely as I've never ever chosen either of those last 
> two.
> Btw, as you've probably already gathered by this note, dos2unix and 
> unix2dos are included on the Red Hat cds, I believe they are on cd 1 of 
> 7.2, however; I don't know which of the three cds house dos2unix and 
> unix2dos in the case of 7.3. 
> Sorry for wrambling folks and best regards to all! 
> 
> Ed Barnes ebarnes at enigma2.cjb.net 
> 
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, 
> Mark Rew wrote:
> 
> > Hi lists,
> > 
> > thanks for all of those who mentioned the dos2unix utility.  But, I'm not
> > seeing it in my RedHat SpeakUp machine.  Does anyone have instructions on
> > getting this utility off of the rpmfind.net site?
> > 
> > Second question, has anyone used the rpmfind utility that suppose to help find
> > RedHat packages, and help with keeping the dependencies for a package
> > up-to-date.  How does trpmfind compare to APT?
> > 
> > thanks
> > Mark Rew
> > 
> > 
> > 
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