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RPM+Slackware Mini-Howto
Dave Whitinger, dave@whitinger.net
v1.3, 13 April 1998
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.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Obtaining the software
3. Installing the software
4. Bugs (Important!)
5. Acknowledgements
6. Copyright
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1. Introduction
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.
This document is geared toward installing RPM on a slackware system
using an Intel processor, but the information contained herein should
be applicable to any distribution.
The latest version of this HOWTO is always available at
<http://www.threepoint.com/HOWTO/RPM+Slackware.html>
For further reading, consult the RPM-HOWTO (available at your
neighborhood LDP mirror). Also, consider buying a copy of the
excellent book, Maximum RPM, by Ed Bailey of Red Hat Software, Inc.
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-2.4.12-1.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
The easiest way to install RPM is to use Slackware's native package
manager.
You must be root to install RPM.
installpkg /home/dave/rpm-2.4.12-1.i386.tar.gz
Of course, replace the /home/dave with the correct path for the
filename.
(NOTE!) If that fails, simply untar the file with these commands:
cd / ; tar zxvpf /home/dave/rpm-2.4.12-1.i386.tar.gz
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'
4. Bugs (Important!)
Be aware that on several versions of RPM, the tar file has been
created using incorrect permissions. As soon as you install RPM,
check your permissions of various directories (/bin, /usr, etc). If
the permissions are of 700 (drwx------), then you have been infected
by the bug.
To fix these permissions problems, run this shell script:
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#!/bin/sh
chmod 755 /bin
chmod 755 /usr
chmod 755 /usr/bin
chmod 755 /usr/doc
chmod 755 /usr/lib
chmod 755 /usr/man
chmod 755 /usr/man/man8
chmod 755 /usr/share
chmod 755 /usr/share/locale
chmod 755 /usr/share/locale/de
chmod 755 /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
chmod 755 /usr/share/locale/pt-br
chmod 755 /usr/share/locale/pt-br/LC_MESSAGES
chmod 755 /usr/share/locale/sv
chmod 755 /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES
chmod 755 /usr/src
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Feel free to E-Mail me if you have any questions about this.
5. Acknowledgements
I recognize Red Hat Software, Inc. and Patrick Volkerding for their
fine Linux distributions.
Thanks to Milan Kopacka (mkop5230@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz) for bringing
to my attention a better way to install RPM (installpkg).
6. Copyright
This HOWTO is copyright 1998 by Dave Whitinger, and is a free
document. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.