Charles,
Thank you for the information. I will keep this for future reference. I know one
thing for sure I am going to
try to use a tar file to install from now on. No more RPM's for me.
One would think that SAMBA would be as easy as they state in the books that I got for
it.
NOT...
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On 1/14/2001 at 22:37 Charles Galpin wrote:
>Hi Steven
>
>I see you found the graphical tool you were looking for (but didn't say
>which one it ended up being), but I thought you'd like to know about the
>simplest way of all to install rpms. With rpm!
>
>Yes, but don't believe me - try it.
>
># to see what an rpm is all about before installing it
>rpm -qip the.rpm # info about it
>rpm -qlp the.rpm # list all files in it
>rpm -qilp the.rpm # info and files
>rpm -qdp the.rpm # list onlt documentation files
>
># and so on
>
># to install an rpm
>rpm -i the.rpm
>rpm -ivh the.rpm # verbose output and hash marks to show progress
>rpm -i --test the.rpm # test first if you are paranoid
>
># to uninstall an rpm
>rpm -e the # where the is the rpms name (like 'samba' or 'samba-common')
>
>man rpm for more info.
>
>hth
>charles
>
>On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Steven Pierce wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone PLEASE tell me how I can get to this application from either a command
>like or from with
>> X. I need uninstall two application and that is the only way I know. If there is
>an easy and more effective
>> way I am all EARS..
>>
>> HELP PLEASE..
>kk
>
>
>
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