Basics of URPMI in Mandriva

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 in Mandriva by admin

If you’ve ever used apt-get in Debian or Ubuntu, yum in Fedora, or zypper in Suse, you’ll know that the killer feature makes software installation and upgrades amazingly easy. What we need is a tool built on top of RPM that does all the automatic dependency stuff for you like apt does. The Mandriva distribution contains just such a tool: URPMI. This is probably Mandriva’s most under-advertised feature, and easily the most important feature. With it, RPM package management is as easy as apt-get under Debian.

RPM Cheat Sheet

Posted on March 5th, 2008 in Basics, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Redhat by admin

The following will help many navigate through the RPM system:

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