[NTLUG:Discuss] adding development to installed system

[MadHat]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:46, Fred James wrote:
> RH 7.1
> I am working with a production box, to which I want to add AMANDA - 
> problem: no gnuplot, no gcc, etc. etc.  So obviously I need to add some 
> development stuff.
> Question: do you feel it would be easier to reinstall the OS?

Amanda, as in the backup client/server?
Why do you need a dev env to install that?
You can install binaries that you can build on another box or downlaod
from a number of sites.  But if you do just _HAVE_ to build it on that
box, no installing the OS is not the easiest way to do it. 

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