Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 1997 18:35:06 +1300
Message-Id:	<199704300535.SAA09185@buttons.ihug.co.nz>
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To:	grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
From:	Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: Usage of directory entries
Cc:	pierre AT tycho DOT com,
	OpenDOS Developer Mailing List <opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com>

>> > > RedHats
>> > > select-what-you-want-to-install-from-6CD's-You-do-know-what-every-thing-
>> > > is-d on't-you? 
>> > I-don't-know-where-RPM-binary-is-and-to-install-RAR2-I-have-to-install-the
>> > -en tire-redhat-dist
>> 
>> Huh? All the darn RPMs binaries are in the /RedHat/RPMS on the CD-ROM...
>Don't have the RH CD ;-)) And I'm not the only one who had problems with it 
>;-))
>But, when I finally found rpm binary, it turned out that I have no rpmrc ;-)) 
>So I did 'touch /usr/lib/rpmrc' and there! it worked, only with some strange 
>errors like 'unknown i486 architecture' ;-)
>
>> Easy to find, eh? To install RAR 2.0, you type the following at the shell
>> prompt:
>> 
>> rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/RPMS/rar-2.00b3-2.i386.rpm
>> 
>> While you are connected to the Internet and you are done. Tried it just for
>> the kick (I love RAR for DOS, having it for Linux shouldn't be a bad
>> thing...), took about 15 seconds here, fast Internet link...
>Lucky man.
>
>> Aww... Frag! It doesn't have the cool interface like in DOS... Bye bye!
>But does it work ok? I mean, can I trust it?

Someone once told me that they wrote a script to upgrade their kernal using
RPM... it prompted during make config and once before it did a reboot :)

the rest was done with bash & RPM :)

>> rpm -e rar
>> 
>> ;-)
>;-)))

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