Description of problem: I successfully installed Fedora 9 on a new computer. I accepted the initial software selection, and also checked to add development code. The installation indicated that I could make a more specific selection of the packages during installation, but that it was not necessary since it could be done later. After the installation I attempted to add software packages, using the program provided through the menu system. The program immediately terminated, since I did not have a network connection to that unit. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9.0 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove a network connection 2. Attempt to change the software installation 3. Actual results: Without a network connection, the user has no obvious way to change the software installed on the unit, since the program terminates immediately. Expected results: I have installed various other Linux distros from CD/DVD, and older versions of Red Hat / Fedora (before version 4.0), and after the initial installation the user is allowed to change the package selection using the packages provided on the CD/DVD. "Synaptic" is very good at handling this, since it allows you to insert multiple DVDs, and selectively enable or disable which ones are usable. Additional info: I bugged this back about Fedora Core 4.0, when there was a change to use YUM and PIRUT. At that time there was at least instructions provided on how to manually make a local YUM repository by copying all of the DVD files to the hard drive. If that documentation still exists, I could not find it at the Fedora web site. Most of my computers are NOT connected to the Internet, and it is not practical to do a complete reinstall to change the package selection. Since I can buy a Fedora / SuSE / Ubuntu installation DVD for about $2, and a Debian set for about $6, it is highly practical to update using only DVDs, and still be able to update more than once a year. This is also the only reasonable way to update computers which have a slow internet connection.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 435625 ***