Redhat rpm in Text Mode

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

hi,
In place of filename.rpm one can give
http://some.rpm.site/filename.rpm
and rpm will go and grab the file using http.
Regards, Willem

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> I'm probably missing something here, but the only times I've used rpm is to
> install a file I've already acquired. To get the file itself use up2date:
> 
> up2date ntpd
> 
> You might have to configure up2date first, but if it's not a virgin system
> this may already have been done.
> 
> Are you sure you don't already have ntpd? You could do:
> 
> rpm -q ntpd
> 
> which would tell you which version of ntpd the rpm database knows about.
> 
> By the way, universally and without exception (almost), everybody calls rpm
> the Redhat Package Manager. From the manual, I get the idea it's supposed to
> be one of those "reflexive definitions" and is actually the RPM Package
> Manager. Not that anybody gives a darn...
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
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