Re: installing rpms

[Sean Middleditch <sean middleditch iname com>]

Just to simplify things for you, seeing as how your question didn't need the complexity of a
man page NOR the cost of a book,

rpm -I whatever.rpm

will install "whatever.rpm"

rpm -U whatever.rpm

will upgrade whatever.rpm

rpm -e whatever

will uninstall (erase) rpm package "whatever".

Sean Middleditch

Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> Marty wrote:
> > > Can someone direct me to some directions on the web to
> > > install/upgrade rpms ?
>
> Don wrote:
> > Not to sound condesending but have your tried "man rpm" ?
>
> I can cheerfully use rpm to install, upgrade, remove, find out
> which package owns which file, find what depends on what, find
> all the files included in an rpm, unpack a source rpm to look
> at the stuff inside it, and build a binary from a source rpm.
>
> But 'man rpm' scares me.
>
> Really, if all you want to do at first is install, upgrade or
> remove, 'man rpm' is overkill and incomprehensible. 'rpm --help'
> is also a bit long: you have to do 'rpm --help | more' to be able
> to see it all!
>
> There are quite a few documents on rpm about. The obvious one is
> "Maximum RPM" which is available in book form from your local
> bookshop and on the web for free at www.rpm.org in PostScript
> or LaTeX form (which I guess means you need ghostview and hence
> X running or a printer available. It's probably cheaper to buy
> the book than to print it out yourself.) The most useful thing
> I got from that book was that to any upgrade/install rpm command
> you can append --test, which means it will run through the rest of
> what you told it to do without actually doing it, and so you
> know whether it will work or not :) Then you can run it without
> the --test :)
>
> You can find the RPM HOWTO at several sites on the web. The
> most up to date seems to be the one at www.oswg.org - go
> to Documents Catalog then User Documentation then RPM. The
> URL is a bit long, mind you :) And again, it's mostly aimed
> at people wanting to build rpms.
>
> Finally, since this is gnome-list, here's GnoRPM documentation:
> start GnoRPM and click on help to find a great introduction and
> instructions on how to install, remove and upgrade RPMs, or look
> at the relevant section of the RH 6.0 installation manual online at
> http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.0-Manual/install-guide/manual/doc077.html#s10
>
> For people who don't like command lines, GnoRPM is very very
> handy. And so is the documentation for it.
>
> Telsa
>
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