To manage software on Linux, distributions use packages. The benefit of packages is that during installation, the system traces which files are installed, and that makes it easier to perform ...

Replace RPMS-TO-SEARCH with the names of the RPM files to search, and replace FILE-TO-SEARCH-FOR with the name of the file to search for. The --filesbypkg option tells the rpm command to output the ...

If you like the latest and greatest version of everything and you use an RPM based system you probably want to learn how to create RPMs. You don't have to, you can ...

i'm trying to install the latest java sdk on mandrake 10.1. the bin extracted fine but when i try to install the rpm file (using "rpm -ivh filename.rpm") it comes up with 2 errors:- cannot open lock ...

This is stupid but I have no choice, what I have is single folder with 6 subdirs full of files. What I need to do create a tar file and slap this tar file into an RPM so when the RPM runs it takes the ...