On 11 Oct, Dan Brown wrote:
> From: Richard Salts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Another question: How does one unpack and install an *rpm program?
>
> # man rpm
Good Lord, that's a lot of information! Man pages say way too much for
most normal purposes, _especially_ the one for `rpm`. Hell, even
`rpm --help` outputs several screens of info. I'd just recap the
basics:
rpm -ivh filename.rpm # Installs a package
rpm -q package-name # Do I have package-name installed?
rpm -qa # What packages do I have installed?
rpm -Uvh filename.rpm # Upgrade to new version of package
rpm -e package-name # Un-installs package-name
Take note of how "package-name" used in the query modes and uninstall
mode does NOT end in ".rpm". If you don't know the name of a package,
try
rpm -qa | grep word
Where "word" is something that should be in the package. For instance,
say you're wondering what GNOME packages are installed. You run
[user@localhost user]$ rpm -qa | grep gnome
gnome-audio-1.0.0-7mdk
gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-7mdk
gnome-core-1.0.9-9mdk
gnome-core-devel-1.0.9-9mdk
gnome-games-1.0.2-13mdk
gnome-games-devel-1.0.2-13mdk
gnome-libs-1.0.40-1mdk
gnome-libs-devel-1.0.40-1mdk
gnome-media-1.0.40-1mdk
gnome-objc-1.0.2-5mdk
gnome-objc-devel-1.0.2-5mdk
gnome-pim-1.0.9-1mdk
gnome-pim-devel-1.0.9-1mdk
gnome-print-0.8-1mdk
gnome-users-guide-1.0.5-7mdk
gnome-utils-1.0.13-1mdk
switchdesk-gnome-1.7.0-3mdk
There you go! Let's now say you want to get rid of the GNOME utilities
(the second-to-last package on the list). You'd run
rpm -e gnome-utils
No version numbers or file extension. Does this make sense? Hopefully,
it's more readable than a man page.
--
-Matt Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
