Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] How do you install a rpm on DL

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>>  have just installed DL and would like to install fwbuilder, but it is
>> a rpm and I do not know how to install it, I have installed 1.2 with
>> only a CD and floppy.
>
> AFAIK, it's impossible to install software on a read-only CDROM!  :-)
>
> You could hack around with the ISO, but we don't support that.
>
> Or you can add software to the development system and build your own
> ISO/CD the correct way.
>
> But, if I understand fwbuilder correctly (I've never used it), you can
> create your firewall rules on a different (non Devil-Linux) PC, and move
> the firewall rules over to DL.  Put them in /etc/init.d/firewall.rules

Additionally, Fwbuilder is a GUI tool which needs and X-Server and
Windowmanager to run. Both are not available on DL because of security
issues.


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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
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