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-!!!RPM+Slackware Mini-Howto
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-!!Dave Whitinger, dave@whitinger
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-''This document describes how to get RPM installed and working
-properly under Slackware. The information contained herein,
-however, is probably applicable to any Linux distribution.''
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-!!1. Introduction
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-!!2. Obtaining the software
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-!!3. Installing the software
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-!!4. Bugs (Important!)
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-!!5. Acknowledgements
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-!!6. Copyright
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-!!1. Introduction
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-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.
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-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.
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-The latest version of this HOWTO is always available at
-http://www.threepoint.com/HOWTO/RPM+Slackware.html
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-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.
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-!!2. Obtaining the software
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-The newest release of RPM is always available from:
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-ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/latest
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-As of this writing, the latest version was
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-rpm-2.4.12-1.i386.tar.gz
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-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.
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-!!3. Installing the software
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-The easiest way to install RPM is to use Slackware's native package manager.
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-You must be root to install RPM.
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-installpkg /home/dave/rpm-2.4.12-1.i386.tar.gz
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-Of course, replace the /home/dave with the correct path for the filename.
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-(NOTE!) If that fails, simply untar the file with these commands:
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-cd / ; tar zxvpf /home/dave/rpm-2.4.12-1.i386.tar.gz
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-Next, you have to create a directory called "rpm" under the /var/lib tree.
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-mkdir /var/lib/rpm
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-Now type 'rpm --initdb' to initialize the rpm database.
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-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'
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-!!4. Bugs (Important!)
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-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.
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-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.
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-!!5. Acknowledgements
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-I recognize Red Hat Software, Inc. and Patrick Volkerding for their fine Linux distributions.
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-Thanks to Milan Kopacka (mkop5230@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz) for bringing to my attention a better way to install RPM (installpkg).
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-!!6. Copyright
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-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.
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