rpm

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:54:21PM -0400, ricardo wrote:
> hello, I'm new in linux(fedora) ,  I treated to install mplayer , but this is what happend
> [ricardo at 200-93-108-244 ricardo]$ rpm i- mplayer-1.0pre2-3.i386.rpm

The - goes _before_ the parameter, not after. And actually, I'd suggest
using "-Uvh" instead of just "-i". And more than that, I'd suggest using apt
or yum rather than RPM directly -- it'll take a lot of the headache out of
it.

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