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Linux Tutorial: Packaging, Updating, and Installing3. Installing
New Packages
If a package is available on your Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core
CDROM, there's an Add/Remove Applications application that is use
ful. It is invoked via,
Main Menu --> System Settings -->
Add/Remove Applications
It will ask you for the root password, and once that is
provided, it will display all applications that may be installed.
Once you have ticked the
applications that you want installed, you just need to click
"Update" to install. Change the discs as you are prompted, and once
this is done, you will
have the software installed.
However, in the open source world where applications change
quite often, and fixes are posted, this method might mean you get
out-dated software.
This is where too ls like yum and apt come into play.
To search the yum database for a piece of software, you can
invoke,
# yum search xargs
where xargs is an example of an application that needs to be
installed. Yum will report if it finds xargs, and if its
successful, performing,
# yum install xargs
will be all that is required. If xargs calls for any
dependencies, it will be resolved automatically, and those packages
get pulled in automatically too.
This is similar w ith Debian and apt.
# apt-cache search xargs
# apt-get insta ll xargs
If you want to install a downloaded RPM or DEB file manually, it
can be performed like,
# rpm -ivh xargs.rpm
or
# dpkg -i xargs.deb
And if you're manually upgrading a package, use,
# rpm -Uvh xargs.rpm
The above command will upgrade the package if it is already
insta lled o r install it if it is not. To perfrom an upgrade only
if the package is curently
installed, use,
# rpm -Fvh xargs.rpm
There are many more options to pass to the rpm, dpkg, yum,
apt-get and apt-cache tools, and the best way to learn more, would
be to read their
manual pages. It is also worthy to note that apt-get is
available for RPM-based systems, so versions for Red Hat Linux or
Fedora Co re (or even SuSE
or Mandrake) are available as a download from the Internet.
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