[gneato]

I usually like rpm -ivh blah.rpm for packages that aren't installed yet, and for packages that are already installed (NOT FOR KERNEL), I use rpm -Uvh blah.rpm because it doesn't overwrite config files.

If you get an error saying "package Such-n-so requires this-package-2.0", you'll have to add that to the rpm command, e.g.

rpm -ivh Such-n-so.rpm this-package-2.0.rpm

...and it will install both at the same time.

If the one it needs is not on the cd, you can head on over to http://www.rpmfind.net/ . They have *almost* everything.