RPM

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This page is for RPM.ORG, for RPM5 view RPM5.

Download Source: http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.10.x/rpm-4.10.2.tar.bz2

Introduction to RPM

RPM is a command-line package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating Unix software packages.

Project Homepage: http://rpm.org/

Dependencies

Required

Optional

Not-Recommended

Non-Multilib

If using internal Berkeley DB

wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.3.21.tar.gz
tar -xf db-5.3.21.tar.xz
ln -sv db-5.3.21 db

Compile the package:

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Note

To use an external Berkeley DB append '--with-external-db' to the configuration.
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/nspr -I/usr/include/nss" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
--libdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var \
--without-lua
make

Install the package:

make install

Multilib

32Bit

To Do.

N32

To Do.

64Bit

To Do.

Post Configuration

Initialise a empty RPM database with the following command:

rpmdb --initdb