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- RPM+Slackware Mini-Howto
- Dave Whitinger, wolf@redhat.com
- v1.0, 29 August 1997
-
- This document describes how to get RPM installed and working properly
- under Slackware. The information contained herein, however, is proba¡
- bly applicable to any Linux distribution.
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- I've been asked many many times how to use RPM under Slackware.
- Enough was enough, so today I decided that creating this document
- might be a good idea.
-
- RPM is the "Red Hat Package Manager" and is the heart of the Red Hat
- Linux distribution. It's most basic functionality is to install and
- de-install packages. Check out the RPM-HOWTO, or get a copy of
- "Maximum RPM" for more information on using RPM.
-
- This document is geared toward installing RPM on a Slackware system
- using an Intel processor, but the information contained herein can
- easily be applied to any distribution using any processor type.
-
- 2. Obtaining the software
-
- The newest release of RPM is always available from:
-
- ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/latest
-
- As of this writing, the latest version was
-
- rpm-2.4.5-1.i386.tar.gz
-
- Notice the .i386 section. This means that it is a binary package for
- the Intel architecture, ready to untar and run. Make sure that the
- file you download has the i386 in the filename, otherwise the
- following instructions will not work.
-
- 3. Installing the software
-
- You must be root to accomplish the next steps.
-
- You must then untar the package from the root directory. Here are the
- instructions for doing so:
-
- cd /
- tar zxvpf /home/wolf/rpm-2.4.5-1.i386.tar.gz
-
- Of course, replace the /home/wolf with the correct path for the
- filename.
-
- Next, you have to create a directory called "rpm" under the /var/lib
- tree.
-
- mkdir /var/lib/rpm
-
- Now type 'rpm --initdb' to initialize the rpm database.
-
- If everything has gone correctly up to this point, you will have a
- rpm-capable system! Test it out by grabbing any rpm file and
- installing it with 'rpm -Uvh filename.rpm'
-
-