how to install .rpm files in linux?

September 28th, 2004, 10:30 pm

hi
i have mandrake linux 10 and as i am a new user of linux ,facing lots of problem regarding installation softwares in linux especially .rpm files.
can anyone help me out ?. .please reply..
regards,

[Daemonguy]

September 29th, 2004, 6:12 am

Type the following on the command line;

man rpm

That should give you a nice little manual page about the rpm command.

Cheers.

September 29th, 2004, 6:15 am

here's what I learnt and wrote down to be the standard install routines for rpm and tar.gz files.
you can find out what the switches mean by doing a rpm --help or tar --help from the command line.

Install a package
rpm –ivh packagename
upgrade a package
rpm –Uvh packagename

create a tar file
tar –cvf myfiles.tar mydir/
(add z if you are dealing with or creating .tgz (.tar.gz) files)

standard install from source
tar –xvzf Apackage.tar.gz
cd Apackage
./configure
make
make install

cheers

Chris

[Daemonguy]

September 29th, 2004, 6:23 am

Sigh.

I thought it might be important for this person to understand the flags and their use, and not just be fed the answer.
My bad I guess.

Cheers.

September 29th, 2004, 6:52 am

sorry did'nt see your response before I posted mine, that said its probably the one area where I almost never vary the command syntax, so I just cut and pasted. I can see your point though and probably would'nt do the same for an rm question !

Chris

March 6th, 2007, 4:19 pm

Anonymous_coward wrote:

here's what I learnt and wrote down to be the standard install routines for rpm and tar.gz files.
you can find out what the switches mean by doing a rpm --help or tar --help from the command line.

Install a package
rpm –ivh packagename
upgrade a package
rpm –Uvh packagename

create a tar file
tar –cvf myfiles.tar mydir/
(add z if you are dealing with or creating .tgz (.tar.gz) files)

standard install from source
tar –xvzf Apackage.tar.gz
cd Apackage
./configure
make
make install

cheers

Chris

Chris,
I tried to install and rpm and I got the following:

[root@localhost RPMS]# rpm -ivh linuxwacom-0.6.6-5.i386.rpm
warning: waiting for transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:linuxwacom ########################################### [100%]

How can I check wether the rpm was actually installed and where?

Thanks

March 7th, 2007, 6:32 am

pan wrote:

Anonymous_coward wrote:

here's what I learnt and wrote down to be the standard install routines for rpm and tar.gz files.
you can find out what the switches mean by doing a rpm --help or tar --help from the command line.

Install a package
rpm –ivh packagename
upgrade a package
rpm –Uvh packagename

create a tar file
tar –cvf myfiles.tar mydir/
(add z if you are dealing with or creating .tgz (.tar.gz) files)

standard install from source
tar –xvzf Apackage.tar.gz
cd Apackage
./configure
make
make install

cheers

Chris

Chris,
I tried to install and rpm and I got the following:

[root@localhost RPMS]# rpm -ivh linuxwacom-0.6.6-5.i386.rpm
warning: waiting for transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:linuxwacom ########################################### [100%]

How can I check wether the rpm was actually installed and where?

Thanks

Answered here

July 17th, 2007, 3:12 am

Try this command !

rpm -qa <rpm name> or if u don't know the exact rpm name
for examble if its hotrod-1.0-1.i386.rpm u can give as
rpm -qa | grep hotrod
this will list out all the installed rpm's.