UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon).
How can I :
1-install a package (exemple : compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128.src.rpm)
2-uninstall (or delete or deinstall) a package (exemple : compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.122).
Many thanks before.

man rpm - and beware as you have a source rpm there.

Cheers
ZB

thank you,
yes , first I looked at Man, issuing rpm --help,
then I tried
[root@linux1 DB_10g_R2_x86]# rpm -q compat-gcc
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.122
[root@linux1 DB_10g_R2_x86]# rpm -u compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128
-u: unknown option
[root@linux1 DB_10g_R2_x86]# rpm -i compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128
error: open of compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128 failed: No such file or directory
[root@linux1 DB_10g_R2_x86]# pwd
/mnt/mobile/DB_10g_R2_x86
[root@linux1 DB_10g_R2_x86]# rpm -i /mnt/mobile/DB_10g_R2_x86/compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128
error: open of /mnt/mobile/DB_10g_R2_x86/compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128 failed: No such file or directory
[root@linux1 DB_10g_R2_x86]# rpm -uhv compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128.
-uhv: unknown option
[root@linux1 DB_10g_R2_x86]#
non of them worked.

Please help.

OK, first, you need to find the standard binary rpm, not the source rpm. The rpm filename will end in .rpm, not .src.rpm. If you're not used to rpm, then attempting to build one from a source rpm will be too much for now... (if you're interested, check out http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/, especially this ).

Anyway. To install the rpm, type

rpm -Uvh /path/to/mypackagenamehere.rpm

Performing an "U"pgrade will still "i"nstall the rpm if it is not currently installed.

To remove the rpm, type

rpm -e mypackagenamehere

Note that you drop the "rpm" extension when you're dealing with an installed package.

Cheers
ZB

Thank you.
I have this problem now :
rpm -Fivh gcc-3.2.3-34.i386.rpm
warning: gcc-3.2.3-34.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a7048f8d
error: Failed dependencies:
cpp = 3.2.3-34 is needed by gcc-3.2.3-34
libgcc >= 3.2.3-34 is needed by gcc-3.2.3-34
gcc = 3.2.3-20 is needed by (installed) gcc-c++-3.2.3-20
gcc = 3.2.3-20 is needed by (installed) gcc-g77-3.2.3-20
gcc = 3.2.3-20 is needed by (installed) gcc-gnat-3.2.3-20
gcc = 3.2.3-20 is needed by (installed) gcc-java-3.2.3-20
gcc = 3.2.3-20 is needed by (installed) gcc-objc-3.2.3-20
is there any way to enforce installation despite of depedencies ?
Or how to found a complete package ?
Regards.

Use --nodeps. But it is 99.9% not a good idea.

Do you have the CDs? The package dependencies are most likely contained on your CDs. Or try searching on the Red Hat FTP servers. Or Google it.

Thank you, I have already downloaded gcc-3.2.3-34.i386.rpm.