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I have downloaded some RPMS to a folder. However for some strange reason although they came in as RPMS when I click on them nothing happens. When I use to do it before an RPM file would automatically run Yast but it just egg time for about 20 seconds then nothing this is as root btw.

Any Ideas.  

 

TIA

Doug 

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Do you really care what my actual home system and network is I am sure yours will be bigger, better and faster.

Have you tried right-clicking on them and selecting Open with... ? Alternatively, open a console, su to become root, cd to the directory where the RPMs are saved and type

 rpm -Uvh *.rpm

 
Eric

 

Thanks Eric,

I did a right click and managed to install it in root using zen installer. It said it installed it sucesfully now just trying to find out where lol.

 

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Do you really care what my actual home system and network is I am sure yours will be bigger, better and faster.

RPM is trickier than good old tar archives. However. you can probably find out what you are looking for with a command like

rpm -q packagename -l

(where "l" in "-l" is letter ell). This runs the 'rpm'command in query mode ("-q"), with "-l" to list files in the package called "packagename". Each file will come out with its full directory path.

For example, I have an RPM

 dillo-0.8.6-1.rh9.i386.rpm

which isfor a particular version of 'dillo' (a browser). That is the name of the RPM. The name of the *package* is "dillo". Hence:

 rpm -q dillo -l

gives me a listing which starts:

 /etc/dillorc
/etc/dpidrc
/usr/bin/dillo
/usr/bin/dpid
/usr/bin/dpidc
/usr/lib/dillo
/usr/lib/dillo/dpi
/usr/lib/dillo/dpi/bookmarks
/usr/lib/dillo/dpi/bookmarks/bookmarks.dpi
/usr/lib/dillo/dpi/cookies
....................................................

showing exactly where each file in the package is installed. 

Hoping this helps, and Happy New Year to all!