Just an FYI for everyone... to find the packagename if you're not sure, you can do: rpm -qa | grep -i <what you think it may be> rpm -qa will give the list of all packages, piped to grep (the -i ignores case) to search for the name. In RedHat at least, you don't need an RPM for a package to uninstall it. Later, -Al On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:00, paul POULAIN wrote:
Christopher Hicks wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, MJ Ray wrote:
Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org> wrote:
I never have understood, and still don't understand, why people think typing 'rpm -Uvh packagename' is hard.
Because you have to find packagename's rpm first. Debian doesn't normally need you to do that.
apt-get is available for RPM also and does wonderful things just like on debian, but no one has yet built the humongous library of interworking packages the way the legion of debian package maintainers has.
and on Mandrake (rpm based), you have urpmi. Just type "urpmi what_you_think" and urpmi will tell you what he finds. If dependencies are needed, urpmi installs them too.
-- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)