Who can tell me what does this mean?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:17:42PM -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Nathan
> Huang<nathan.vorbei.tech at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys
> > who can tell me what does this syntax mean?
> >
> > su -c 'rpm -Uvh /path to rpm/VMware-player-2.0.0-45731.i386.rpm'
>
> This command looks like it will ask for your root password, and then
> it will install or update the VMWare Player package.

More specifically, it switches user to root (thus prompting for
password), and runs that command as root.

The 'path to rpm' part is something you're expected to fill in with
the actual location of the rpm package file.

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