How to install rpm file?
 

Sorry to bother you, long time no use linux, i had forgotten what i learned in the past.

I down load abiword, the file is abiword-2.2.9-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm ,
i put it in /home,
so, how to install it? and, how to launch it after that ?

Re: How to install rpm file?
 

As root, run

Re: How to install rpm file?
 

I'm a think it is :

rpm -ivh abiword-2.2.9-0.1.102mdk.i586.rpm

hello,
or you can install rpm in better way using utilities like:
"apt" ::::for debian
"urpmi" :::: for Mandrake
"yum" :::: for Fedora/Redhat
"YaST :::: for SuSE.

moreover you can use "apt" for any rpm based distros.

regards

Re: Re: How to install rpm file?
 

The -Ivh option does a fresh install of the program and overwrites all files and configurations while the -Uvh option does an upgrade of the software if it detects an earlier version already installed. If not, the -Uvh option will perform a fresh install similar to the -Ivh option.

Most people would recommend you to use -Uvh instead of -Ivh as the program may end up overwriting some important configuration files which your system was using previously.

how to run these application from linux? i use mandrake

you will have to download "urpmi" from internet first........then using it you can easily download and install other rpm's etc

regards

how about installing tar/gz files?

hello,

good site for beginners

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