I installed most everything on vinu, going through the redhat-config-packages selection at install-time, in order to determine which packages are worth installing on every machine. Here's the list of 126 packages, as of today, 73 were in /afs/d/software/base/linux/Redhat.Enterprise.Linux.AS-3/RedHat/RPMS and 53 were in /afs/d/software/fixes/linux --------------------- --------------------- --------------------- --------------------- ant gcc-g77 libpng10 patchutils autoconf gcc-g77-ssa libstdc++-devel pciutils-devel ant-libs gcc-java libstdc++-ssa perl-CPAN automake gcc-java-ssa libstdc++-ssa-devel pkgconfig dejagnu gcc-ssa libtermcap-devel psgml dev86 gdb libtool pspell-devel dialog gimp libusb pstack diffstat gimp-data-extras libusb-devel python-devel bison gimp-print-plugin libuser-devel rcs byacc glibc-profile libvorbis-devel readline-devel cdecl glibc-utils libxml2-devel redhat-rpm-config cdparanoia gnome-games lockdev-devel rhel-ig-ppc-multi-en cproto gnome-libs ltrace rpm-build crash gperf memprof rpm-devel ctags httpd-devel modutils-devel screen curl-devel IBMJava2-JRE mrproject splint cvs IBMJava2-SDK ncurses-devel strace ddd ImageMagick nedit swig doxygen indent netpbm sysstat dvdrecord libaio netpbm-progs tetex-fonts dvd+rw-tools libaio-devel newt-devel tetex-xdvi ElectricFence libao-devel nmap texinfo emacs libgcc-ssa openldap-devel transfig ethereal libgcj-devel openoffice.org uucp expat-devel libgcj-ssa-devel openoffice.org-i18n vim-enhanced expect libmrproject openssl-devel w3c-libwww flex libmudflap oprofile xemacs gcc libmudflap-devel oprofile-devel xemacs-el gcc-c++ libogg-devel ORBit xemacs-info elfutils-libelf-devel libf2c pam-devel XFree86-tools elfutils-devel libcap-devel open zsh gcc-c++-ssa libpcap Canna-libs FreeWnn-libs Xaw3d apel-xemacs guile jaf javamail junit krb5-devel openmotif rh-postgresql-libs slang-devel zlib-devel I copied the 73 base files into the /fixes/ directory so that I can easily install everything, ala cd /afs/d/software/fixes/linux ==================================================================================================== Here's the list of 38 packages I decided to remove from vinu, --------------------- --------------------- --------------------- --------------------- arptables_jf fam-devel libgnat sane-frontends aspell-devel gcc-gnat hesiod-devel slang-devel aumix gcc-objc krbafs-devel vorbis-tools bzip2-devel gcc-objc-ssa kudzu-devel xdelta Canna-3.6-20 gdbm-devel libacl-devel xfig cyrus-sasl-devel gmp-devel libattr-devel xmms db4-devel gphoto2 net-snmp-devel xsane db4-utils gpm-devel rh-postgresql-devel xsane-gimp e2fsprogs-devel gtkam sane-backends newt-devel emacs-leim gtkam-gimp Here's the rpm command to query & remove the above 38 packages, rpm -qa|egrep 'arptables_jf|aspell-devel|aumix|bzip2-devel|Canna-3|cyrus-sasl-devel|db4-devel|db4-utils|'\ 'e2fsprogs-devel|emacs-leim|fam-devel|gcc-gnat|gcc-objc|gcc-objc-ssa|gdbm-devel|gmp-devel|gphoto2|'\ 'gpm-devel|gtkam|gtkam-gimp|hesiod-devel|im-sdk|krbafs-devel|kudzu-devel|libacl-devel|libattr-devel|'\ 'libgnat|net-snmp-devel|rh-postgresql-devel|sane-backends|sane-frontends|slang-devel|vorbis-tools'\ 'xdelta|xfig|xmms|xsane|xsane-gimp' rpm -e arptables_jf aspell-devel aumix bzip2-devel Canna-3.6-20 cyrus-sasl-devel db4-devel db4-utils rpm -e e2fsprogs-devel emacs-leim fam-devel hesiod-devel slang-devel vorbis-tools xdelta rpm -e gcc-gnat gcc-objc gcc-objc-ssa gdbm-devel gmp-devel gphoto2 gpm-devel gtkam gtkam-gimp libgnat rpm -e krbafs-devel kudzu-devel libacl-devel libattr-devel net-snmp-devel rh-postgresql-devel rpm -e sane-backends sane-frontends slang-devel xmms xsane xsane-gimp newt-devel