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

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Fri May 31 13:07:15 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 12:39, Joseph Lukasiewicz wrote:
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> 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
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> Q1) The file name is quite long ending in .rpm  - What is this and how does it work?
>  
It's a package file, it is the most common, and easy way to install
programs on a linux system. There are GUI tools, kpackage, ect to
install RPMS, or the command of rpm. you can install, uninstall, and
upgrade RPMS easily.
 
> Q2) How hard is it to "upgrade" from one level of linux to the next - say 6 to 7 on RedHat?
> 
The easiest way is to get the new CD you want to upgrade to, and boot
off of it, and run the upgrade install. It usually works pretty well..
Better than MS 'Upgrades' that makes you reinstall office and other
software after...

> Joe Lukasiewicz
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