Re: using rpm

[Curtis Maurand <curtis maurand com>]

There are a couple of ways to do it.  You can do it all in one operation:

rpm -ivh ftp://some.ftp.site/some.dir/some.rpm 

or you can download it first and then

rpm -ivh filename

The "vh" gets you a little more verbose and a progress bar.

Curtis

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Ian Dixon wrote:

> I'm having some issues understanding just how to install a package using
> RPM. I've been through man rpm, but that doesn't answer my question here
> which is; 
> 1. Do I download the package to my home directory and then install it
> from there, or do I have to download it to a particular directory? If a
> particular directory, which one?
> 2. Once I have downloaded the package what is the form of the command,
> is it as shown below?
> 
>  rpm -i foobar-1.0-1.i386.rpm
> 
> Thanks again for any help,
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 
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