Re: using rpm

[Ian Dixon <zippller optonline net>]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 22:36, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> 
> 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
> > 
> > Hey thanks Curtis, Bob and Alvin. I am still trying to work out how 
    to do things without doing some damage, so felt it better to ask
    than be sorry afterwards.

Thanks again
> > 
> > 
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