Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 18:35:06 +1300 Message-Id: <199704300535.SAA09185@buttons.ihug.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl From: Lorier Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries Cc: pierre AT tycho DOT com, OpenDOS Developer Mailing List Precedence: bulk >> > > 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 >> >> ;-) >;-)))