On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:14:27AM -0000, yuvaraj k wrote:
> What is the deference between the .rpm file and .tar file
rpm (Redhat Package Manager) is a package management system
developed by RH folk. It is essentially a cpio archive to which
a header is attached, which does things like dependency check
etc. This section can be detached with the rpm2cpio utility
which would leave the cpio file behind, which can be broken
down into original component files with the cpio utility.
tar (Tape Archive) is the original POSIX compliant archiving
tool and is the defacto *nix method of glueing necessary bits
together for archiving. Some distos like Slack use this as the
distribution method. For that matter even a .deb file (debian)
is a tar.gz file only with few additional files attached
together by the ar (archiver) program.
> if we installed .tar package then how to uninstall the .tar
> file
If you have installed a binary tar.gz package (normally done
from the root (/) directory, the removal method is as follows
(provided you have the original .tar.gz file with you):
tar -tzvf package.tar.gz > somefile.txt
Edit the file somefile.txt. This will give a listing of which
all files went where.
Make a small script out of the same file, putting a rm before
each line, do a chmod +x and run it with root privileges. e.g.
#!/bin/sh
rm /usr/local/bin/xxx
rm /usr/share/man/xxx.1
etc etc
HTH
Bish
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