compiling

[Brett Brewer]

RPM stands for "Red Hat Package Manager". You usually want to install an RPM
rather than an SRPM. (I think) SRPM stands for "Source RPM" which means it's
a package containing the source code. Keep in mind that I'm completely
unqualified to give you any advice as I'm also a newbie. RPMs are one of the
easiest ways to install and manage your software, but my favorite is
"apt-get". If you want to install some mainstream application such as
Apache, or most others included with YDL, you can just do an "apt-get
install packagename" where "packagename" is the common name of the package
you want to install. You need no version numbers or anything else in the
packagename. So "apt-get install apache" should install Apache along with
any other dependencies necessary to make Apache work. apt-get could easily
be a newbie's best friend (if you're connected to the net via broadband).
Good luck,
Brett Brewer
www.brettbrewer.com


-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf Of
Stuart Balfour
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:35 PM
To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: compiling


>what is the difference between rpm & src.rpm?, how do i manage src.rpm ?

rpm is a package format, like tar.  You can do a rpm2cpio, to get a cpio
archive, then unpack it with cpio -i.  Do a man on rpm2cpio and cpio to
figure it out.

                                    Stuart
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