Thanks, Matt. I'll look those up.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape
for Linux 2.0
> On 11 Oct, Dan Brown wrote:
> > From: Richard Salts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >> Another question: How does one unpack and install an *rpm program?
> >
> > # man rpm
>
> Good Lord, that's a lot of information! Man pages say way too much for
> most normal purposes, _especially_ the one for `rpm`. Hell, even
> `rpm --help` outputs several screens of info. I'd just recap the
> basics:
>
> rpm -ivh filename.rpm # Installs a package
> rpm -q package-name # Do I have package-name installed?
> rpm -qa # What packages do I have installed?
> rpm -Uvh filename.rpm # Upgrade to new version of package
> rpm -e package-name # Un-installs package-name
>
> Take note of how "package-name" used in the query modes and uninstall
> mode does NOT end in ".rpm". If you don't know the name of a package,
> try
>
> rpm -qa | grep word
>
> Where "word" is something that should be in the package. For instance,
> say you're wondering what GNOME packages are installed. You run
>
> [user@localhost user]$ rpm -qa | grep gnome
> gnome-audio-1.0.0-7mdk
> gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-7mdk
> gnome-core-1.0.9-9mdk
> gnome-core-devel-1.0.9-9mdk
> gnome-games-1.0.2-13mdk
> gnome-games-devel-1.0.2-13mdk
> gnome-libs-1.0.40-1mdk
> gnome-libs-devel-1.0.40-1mdk
> gnome-media-1.0.40-1mdk
> gnome-objc-1.0.2-5mdk
> gnome-objc-devel-1.0.2-5mdk
> gnome-pim-1.0.9-1mdk
> gnome-pim-devel-1.0.9-1mdk
> gnome-print-0.8-1mdk
> gnome-users-guide-1.0.5-7mdk
> gnome-utils-1.0.13-1mdk
> switchdesk-gnome-1.7.0-3mdk
>
> There you go! Let's now say you want to get rid of the GNOME utilities
> (the second-to-last package on the list). You'd run
>
> rpm -e gnome-utils
>
> No version numbers or file extension. Does this make sense? Hopefully,
> it's more readable than a man page.
> --
> -Matt Stegman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
