Redhat rpm in Text Mode

[Jude DaShiell]

If you give rpm an ftp address and a path to the file and a file name and 
tell it to install and have a live network connection rpm will do the file 
acquisition for you too.



On Thu, 20 May 2004, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> I'm probably missing something here, but the only times I've used rpm is to
> install a file I've already acquired. To get the file itself use up2date:
>
> up2date ntpd
>
> You might have to configure up2date first, but if it's not a virgin system
> this may already have been done.
>
> Are you sure you don't already have ntpd? You could do:
>
> rpm -q ntpd
>
> which would tell you which version of ntpd the rpm database knows about.
>
> By the way, universally and without exception (almost), everybody calls rpm
> the Redhat Package Manager. From the manual, I get the idea it's supposed to
> be one of those "reflexive definitions" and is actually the RPM Package
> Manager. Not that anybody gives a darn...
>
> Lee
>
>
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