Installin RPM files in linux

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

[b:38159877fc]tar –xvzf Apackage.tar.gz

cd Apackage

./configure

make

make install[/b:38159877fc]