Advantages of rpm? Dependency management and version control. You can certainly install by hand, man rpm is your friend. Example: rpm -Uv [some.app.rpm] The preferred rpm front end these days is yum. You should examine /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/ and then run a command like: yum update PS: You may also wish to add the recently opened Fedora Extras repository: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/ Raul A. Gallegos writes: > Hi. Where can I read on this or can someone give me some quick > pointers. I'd like to install some additional software on this FC3 box > such as CenterICQ and a bittorrent client. These are not installed by > default so my question is how do I go about getting rpm packages? Is > there an automated way of doing this or do I just download the rpms from > the sites they are offered on and run some rpm install command? > > Also, what is the advantage of installing rpms over just installing by > hand such as: > > ./configure > make > make install > > style of installations? > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
