Hi Andrew, all !
AndrewMcHorney wrote:
Hello
I downloaded some of the document files but the file extension is rpm.
How does one extract this file?
If you are on an RPM-based Linux system (like SuSE, RedHat, etc), you
need not "extract", you can "install" - using the "rpm" program.
See "man rpm".
If you are on any other system (Linux not using RPM, like Debian or
Ubuntu; or any non-Linux), or if you don't want to install the package
but just extract some files, you can get the whole contents in "cpio"
format.
The tool to do this is called "rpm2cpio", see its man page.
All binaries generated by MySQL (and non-binary files as well) are also
available in "tar.gz" packages.
On some few platforms, the native "tar" may be somewhat limited and fail
on long path names, use the GNU version of "tar" then.
HTH,
Jörg
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