How the heck do I install from RPM?

[paulb]

:mad:
GNORpm wont work, My book (Linux For Dummies) doesn't have it, and I couldnt find an NHF!!! So, how do I install an RPM in console!!! Say, file.rpm with the default options?

[MrMoray]

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/redh/rpmcheat.html

there's the NHF....its very simple.

Have fun!

[paulb]

K, thanks.

[Icarus]

My favorate command is
rpm -Uvh <insert rpm file here>

This works on everything that is not already installed :)

[palm1]

Yes, always install rpms from a terminal window, then type # rpm -Uvhvv (insert file name)
The vv after h is a nice way to show you EXACTLY what's going on it detail, it has helped me figure out what I was doing wrong before. ;)

[Ludootje]

that's a possibility.. personally, i hate rpms.. reason: to install an rpm, it will tell you you need for example 5 other files. so you download those rpms, and of course, those will also need other files, and blablabla.. for xmmp, i download and installed 32 rpms. it's still not working, i miss mng.so & libstdcpp or something like that.. the best command for installing rpms:
rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force <insert name>
then it wont bother you with all that ****.. and there still is a possibility it will work.. to install rpms, i prefer rpmdrake, as this will tell you what it needs to install, and install it.. though, in mandrake8.1 it's broken.. one of the thousands of reasons why i use 8.0 back) anyways rpms suck.

[jrcow97]

Doesn't Gnorpm do the dependancies for you? At least it does that when you try to uninstall something. I had some trouble with rpm a while back. Whenever I tried to install some new package, it would say "only major number <=3 supported by this version of RPM" I don't have a fast internet connection, and the only upgrades that I had available were in RPM format. And of course, according to Murphy's law, the major number that those upgrades had was 4 :< But I finnally got that fixed.