What is an .rpm file? and how do you use it?

Joseph Lukasiewicz jlukasiewicz at yahoo.com
Fri May 31 12:39:24 EDT 2002


Hi,

I came across a site that said they had a preconfigured (older Red Hat) kernel for an Alpha that had SMP and the Mylex DAC960 Controller. [Google search DEC Alpha DAC960 - it was late, I was bored] kernel-smp-2.2.17-14.alpha RPM


Q1) The file name is quite long ending in .rpm  - What is this and how does it work?

Q2) How hard is it to "upgrade" from one level of linux to the next - say 6 to 7 on RedHat?

Joe Lukasiewicz

 



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