Rpm on Michael’s Domain

RPM management

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Example: The quanta packagerpm -q quanta Check whether and which version of quanta is installedrpm -ql quanta List all files (and their installation location) that are provided by the quanta packagerpm -ivh quanta Install quantarpm -e quanta Erase (deinstall) quantarpm -aq | grep quanta If you don’t know exactly what you are looking for you can list all packages and grep them with a substring.rpm -q -f filename Search for rpm packages that provide filenameA good manual for rpm managemant: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ .If you want to query an RPM that is not installed, you need the following syntax:rpm -qpl --requires quanta.rpm This would list all requirements and all files that are in the package.cat package.rpm | rpm2cpio | pax -r Extract a file from an rpm package.

Good rpm repositories for Suse Linux 9

Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

You can search specifically for suse 9 rpm packages under http://rpm.pbone.net/ but there are two good sites that have specialized on Suse Linux rpm packages: http://guru.linuxbe.org http://packman.links2linux.de/

Extracting files from rpm archives (rpm2cpio)

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The command rpm2cpio finger-0.17-9.i386.rpm | cpio -imVd extracts all files from the rpm archive finger-0.17-9.i386.rpm. It creates the directory structure relative to the current directory.

Making a Suse RPM for the Staden Package

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

As the binaries work on all Suse distributions, I though to skip the build process and just have the binaries unpacked by rpm and then add the suse-specific files to the correct places. These additional files are mainly kde.desktop files, icons andexport STADENROOT=/usr/local/staden-linux-1-4-1and sourcing /usr/local/staden-linux-1-4-1/staden.profilein ~/.bashrc.Thus the unpacking would be justtar --extract --verbose --gzip --absolute-names --file=staden-linux-1-4-1.tar.gzandchown -R root:root /usr/local/staden-linux-1-4-1

Installing source rpms (rpmbuild --rebuild)

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In order to install source rpms *.src.rpm you need to rebuild the package (as root): rpmbuild --rebuild package.src.rpm This results in a binary rpm. On Suse 9.2 the newly created binary rpm can be found in /usr/src/packages/RPMS. You can install it as usual: rpm -ivh package.rpm

Command line rpm and SuSEconfig

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After you run the rpm command from the command line, you always should run the SuSE config command in order to update the SuSE configuration files.