Linux

Installin RPM files in linux

Posted on July 4, 2007. Filed under: Linux, installing in linux, linux tips |

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]