On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Anthony Joshua Brow wrote:
> Ladies/Gents,
>
> May I share the following with you. I know I am a newbie, but this may possibly help
>others.
> When I got my Mandrake-Linux. I also got a disk with hundreds of RPMs. Now looking
>at the titles I simply have
> no idea what all these programs in the RPMs do. On the net I found a Dutch site on
>which are about 128 A4 pages (should one
You might also consider the command:
rpm -qip some-rpm-package.rpm
Which will tell you some nice info:
bash-2.03$ rpm -qip MySQL-3.23.40-1.i386.rpm
Name : MySQL Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 3.23.40 Vendor: MySQL AB
Release : 1 Build Date: Wed Jul 18
18:07:15 2001
Install date: (not installed) Build Host: mysql-work
Group : Applications/Databases Source RPM:
MySQL-3.23.40-1.src.rpm
Size : 15590525 License: GPL / LGPL
Packager : David Axmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.mysql.com/
Summary : MySQL: a very fast and reliable SQL database engine
Description :
MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query
Language) database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation
that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client
programs/libraries.
.... and so on....
Mandrake also offers rpmdrake - a graphical interface to your RPM's
Stew Benedict
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