I`m new for RPM

[STUTTGART]

Hi, before I but thise new thread I check it out here but no own try to help some people about how to install RPM.I looked back 12-21-2004 only half the answer.
Please some one of you can give instruction how to use to install RPM or could show me a web page that tell all about how to install RPM for suse 10.0.
That will be very nice from you to let me know.

Thank you for your time effort to helping me.

STUTTGART

[mrrangerman43]

You might try something like www.google.com/linux search rpm howto

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/RPM-HOWTO.html

Dan

[LNXchd]

RPM

RPM is the Red Hat Package Manager. Not all distributions support it, but I would recommend the ones that do to beginners. Red Hat invented the thing, so naturally you will find it in their distributions. It is also supported by Caldera and S.u.S.E. (any others? Please let me know.) Software gets wrapped up into these RPM packages that you can download from the Internet. You use the rpm utility to install them, and it keeps track of version information and changes made by the install so the package can be uninstalled or upgraded later if you choose. You will usually need to become SuperUser to install software.

The syntax of rpm is pretty simple. To install a package:

[root]# rpm -i <packagename>

If you already have an older version of the program installed and you want to upgrade to a newer version:

[root]# rpm -U <packagename>

Remember that Linux is case sensitive, that's an upper case U. So you installed the software, played with it for a while, found out it sucks. How to get rid of it?

[root]# rpm -e <packagename>


I would suggest reading your distribution's documentation on who, what, when, where, how and why. Might make life using it much easier. Suse has a decent database you can query and find lots of solutions..check it out at the link below.

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/index.html


Chad

[rdeschene2]

To install the RPMs on the Suse DVD, open Yast and select "install/remove program" from the Yast menu.

For RPM binaries from other sources, try downloading them and (within konqueror) clicking on them. A window should pop up asking if you want to install these using Yast...nice when it works eh?

For whatever reason though, this doesn't always work, in which case I use the command line RPM commands. There should be an icon for the Suse help system in your toolbar or on your desktop (geeko in a round life preserver) -- click on that to view and search the administration guide and other help files that are probably automatically installed on your system. It has a good section on upgrading and package management.

For a good source of RPM binaries for Suse check out:
http://packman.links2linux.org/

...and you can even read that site in German.

P.S. "Germany's Michael Greis captured the men's biathlon gold on Saturday afternoon to win the first medal of the Torino Olympics."

[STUTTGART]

To install the RPMs on the Suse DVD, open Yast and select "install/remove program" from the Yast menu.

For RPM binaries from other sources, try downloading them and (within konqueror) clicking on them. A window should pop up asking if you want to install these using Yast...nice when it works eh?

For whatever reason though, this doesn't always work, in which case I use the command line RPM commands. There should be an icon for the Suse help system in your toolbar or on your desktop (geeko in a round life preserver) -- click on that to view and search the administration guide and other help files that are probably automatically installed on your system. It has a good section on upgrading and package management.

For a good source of RPM binaries for Suse check out:
http://packman.links2linux.org/

...and you can even read that site in German.

P.S. "Germany's Michael Greis captured the men's biathlon gold on Saturday afternoon to win the first medal of the Torino Olympics."


rdeschene2 your saying:To install the RPMs on the Suse DVD,what you trying to tell me.
Hmmmmm what Suse DVD?

[serz]

Some distros lets you download an install DVD, instead of having to download/burn 3-4 cds.

[STUTTGART]

Some distros lets you download an install DVD, instead of having to download/burn 3-4 cds.

Ok you trying to tell me distro Suse have 5 cd but there is a DVD version that I can download /burn?

[serz]

Hmm.. probably, I can't look for it now, sorry.