rpmbundle - Copy RPMs for offline installation
Installing Fedora (and most other free distros) on computers without a fast (and economical) Internet connection is a bit painful since most of the popular multimedia file formats aren't supported out of the box . Being a free distribution, Fedora only supports and includes free and open source software. Support for all the other patent encumbered formats are available from RPMFusion repository. However, you'll need a fast (and reasonably cheap) Internet connection to download several megabytes worth of RPM files from these repositories. I present here the steps and a small utility program for copying RPM files from a PC with Internet connection for offline installation at other computers. This can be used to update existing installations or to install new software on stand-alone PCs. Step 1 - Download RPMs The simplest way to harvest RPMs is to enable YUM's cache on the source machine. This way, everything YUM fetches on the machine will be available in...