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Using RPM

by Tammy Fox
Last Modified: Wednesday, 19-May-2004 11:55:37 EDT

Introduction
    RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. It uses a RPM database to maintain a listing of all software installed using RPM including the last version installed. There are RPM switches to install, erase, update, and query the software database. Refer to the man pages of RPM for further information. There are too many switches to discuss there. Below are the most commonly used. RPM software packages can be recognized by their extension .rpm.
Using RPM
List of commonly used RPM commands
rpm -ivh package-1.0.3.i386.rpmInstall RPM Package
rpm -e package-1.0.3.i386.rpmUninstall RPM Package
rpm -Uvh package-1.0.3.i386.rpmUpdate RPM Package
rpm -Fvh package-1.0.3.i386.rpmFreshen RPM Package
rpm -rebuilddbRebuild RPM Database
Legend for some of the examples above:
-vverbose
-vvvery verbose
-hdisplay hash marks


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Last modified: Wednesday, May 19, 2004