1.1. Selecting Packages to Install 1.1. Selecting Packages (Linux web host)
1.1. Selecting Packages to Install 1.1. Selecting Packages to Install Let us have a closer look at the interface as shown in Figure 16.2, The Software Package Installation interface [210]. A package named frozen-bubble-1.0.07mdk is selected in the tree-view and in the package description area you see the required disk space, a short summary (Frozen Bubble arcade game) and a detailed description (Full-featured, colorful animated penguin eye candy…). If your software medium repository is configured to use complete package lists (not the summary synthesis files, but the full hdlist ones, which happens to be the default option after installing your Mandriva Linux system), you may get more information on the package by choosing the Maximum information radio button in the access-area. In addition you can see a list of the files provided by the package and the change log. The status bar shows you the disk space required by the selected packages as well as the current free space. Please note that due to dependencies, the disk space required by the selected packages might be greater than the size required by the chosen package by itself. Rpmdrake shows you an alert box if you try to install more software than the free available disk space. Nevertheless you may proceed (you may, for example, be able to remove some no longer required files, such as programs downloaded from Internet in the past and which you do not use anymore, to allow the installation to continue). Now you can begin the installation, by simply clicking on the Install button. A new window appears, showing you a progress bar of how your installation is proceeding. If you prefer to leave without doing anything, you can just click on the Quit button. While selecting applications to install, it may happen that you choose a package which requires dependencies (additional libraries or another tool) to work correctly. In this case Rpmdrake displays an information window allowing you to choose whether to accept the selected dependencies, or to Cancel the operation (Fig ure 16.3, Rpmdrake dependency alert box [212]).