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Most Linux distributions also have a "zip" utility capable of "unzipping" files compressed using Windows' WinZip or PKZip programs. The command is simple unzip filename.zip. To compress a file using this program, the command is zip filename.zip filename where filename is the name of the uncompressed fileand filename.zip is the compressed file.
More commonly, Linux files are compressed using the gzip command and uncompressed using the gunzip commands. This pair of commands is found on most, if not all, Linux distros.
Another common download file type is the .rpm or Red Hat Package Manager format. These files will either be in x86.rpm format or in .src.rpm format. To install a x86.rpm file, it is only necessary to type rpm -Uvh filename.rpm at the command line from the directory the file is located in to upgrade an existing package. To install a new package, the command is rpm -ivh filename.rpm. From there, the Red Hat Package Manager takes over.
If the file is a filename.src.rpm file, it can be installed by using the command rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm
A RPM file can be said to have 3 parts, the package name, the version, and a file extension. A typical .rpm file name might be: somename-1-05-3.i386.rpm. In this example, I would refer to "somename" as the package and "1-05-3.i386" as the version. Using this convention, the following table lists a few of the options available with rpm:
| rpm -ivh package-version.rpm | install new .rpm package |
| rpm -Uvh package-version.rpm | upgrade existing package |
| rpm -qa | list all installed .rpm packages |
| rpm -qi package | get more information on this package |
| rpm -ql package | list all files that package installed on system |
| rpm -e package | remove installed package |
| rpm --rebuild package-version.src.rpm | Install a source rpm |
| rpm --rebuilddb | rebuild the RPM database |
Apt-get for RPM is a really nice utility for Red Hat users. It allows a Debian-style package update or install. Combined with Synaptic, a GUI front end for apt-get, you have a really slick way of getting updates. The following links will get you everything you need to install and use these programs.
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