Installation of packages

• Objectives– Using software packaging tools

• Contents– Application delivered as

– Where to get commonly used rpm’s

– Autofs on!

– Getting RPM from WEB/FTP

– Manually install from disk/net

– Installing SRPMS

– Creating RPMS

– Managing RPM’s

– Managing tar-balls

– Apt-get

• Practical– none

• Summary

Application delivered as

• Binaries– Application comes precompiled

– Can be dependent of other libraries, dynamic built.

– Can be undependent of other libraries, static built.

– Is dependent on RedHat version

– Is dependent of plateform ie. I386 architecture or sparc

• Sourcecode– Application comes as open c/c++ -source code

– You need to have development enviroment installed ie. gcc

– Is undependent of plateform

• And is stoved in ”tar-balls”– Application is zipped togeather with tar (tape archive record)

– Most common for 3:party and application in sourcecode

• And is stoved in ”rpm’s”– Application is packaged in special redhat packet

– Most common for RedHat precompiled applications

Where To Get Commonly Used RPMs

• RPMs On Your Installation CDs– You find all .rpm files in /RedHat/RPMS on CD1-3

– mount /dev/cdrom or install automount

• RPMs Downloaded From RedHat 9 ”Shrike”– http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

– ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

• Other places for RPM’s– http://rpmfind.net/

– ftp://ftp.sunet.se

Getting RPMs Using Web Based FTP

• from RedHat site– Use your web browser to go to the RedHat link above

– Go to the /pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ -directory

– Click on the openldap-clients-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm link

– Save the file to your hard drive

• from RPM find site– Go to the rpmfind link above

– Type in ”openldap" in the search box

– Click the search button

– Scroll down for the RPM that matches your version of Fedora

– The right hand column has the links with the actual names of the rpm files

– Click the link

– Save the file to Linux box's hard drive

• With wget# wget http://some.server.com/RPMS/application.rpm# wget http://some.server.com/RPMS/application.rpm

Getting RPMs Using Anonymous FTP

• Open ftp.redhat.com

• Download your rpm’s– Here we used mget to download several files at same time

# ftp ftp.redhat.com

# cd /pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS

# ls openldap*

200 PORT command OK.

150 Here comes the directory listing.

openldap-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

openldap-clients-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

openldap-devel-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

openldap-servers-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

226 Directory send OK.

# mget openldap*

. . . .

# by

# ftp ftp.redhat.com

# cd /pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS

# ls openldap*

200 PORT command OK.

150 Here comes the directory listing.

openldap-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

openldap-clients-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

openldap-devel-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

openldap-servers-2.0.27-8.i386.rpm

226 Directory send OK.

# mget openldap*

. . . .

# by

How To Manually Install RPMs

• Installing Downloaded rpm-Files & from CDROMINSTALLING

# rpm -ivh foo-2.12.rpm

-i = Specifies installation as the action to be taken.

-v = Will display additional information while installing.

-h = Prints 50 hash marks (#) as installation progresses.

UPDATING

# rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

-U = Update

UPDATING WHEN DEPENDENCIES FAIL ABOVE

-nodeps = Ignode dependencies temporary while updating

# rpm –Uvh –nodeps filename.rpm

UNINSTALLING

# rpm -e gpm -would remove the package named gpm

How To Manually Install RPMs from NET

• Installing rpm-Files from the net

FTP Anonymous passwords:

# rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/RedHat/foo.rpm

FTP Non anonymous:

# rpm -ivh ftp://yahoo@ftp.linux.tucows.com/put/RedHat/foo.rpm

HTTP

# rpm -ivh http://www.linux.tucows.com/pub/RedHat/foo.rpm

More RPM afterwork and checkouts

• Test install before real installUpdate test

# rpm -Uvh –test application.rpm

Install test

# rpm -ivh --test application.rpm

QUERY EXACT

# rpm -q samba -show package version and if it is installed

VERIFY

# rpm –verify samba-2.0.6-62 -installed package status

IS INSTALLED

# rpm -qa | grep samba -grep all that begins with samba

LISTING FILES

# rpm -qpl dhcp-3.0pl1-23.i386.rpm .show all files stoved in rpm package

How to Install Source RPMs, newer RH

• Usually installed using a supplier-produced scripts– You have to download them or get them from CD-roms

– Files lastnames are .src.rpm

– They are usally found in a catalog called SRPMS/

– In order to make your application, you need to compile:

• Installing compiled SRPMS

• RedHat keeps its SRPMS files– In: /usr/src/redhat/

# rpmbuild --rebuild application.src.rpm

. . .

# rpmbuild --rebuild application.src.rpm

. . .

# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386

# rpm –ivh application.rpm

# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386

# rpm –ivh application.rpm

Install/Uninstall TAR-balls

• Unpacking TAR package application– tar xvfz application.tar.gz

• Preconfigure application– cd application

– Read the INSTALLATION and HOWTO’s

– ./configure or make config

• Compile application– Make is sometimes not needed if application is binary

– make

– make test

• Install application– If application is binary, you sometimes just run ./install or similar

– make install or ./install

• Uninstall applicationmake uninstall

Other installation/uninstall tools

• APT– Debian tool for updating and installing application and system

components– # apt-get [options] install package [package ...]

– There options [update|check|install|upgrade|remove]

– Also available for RedHat

• pkgtool– Slackware package manager

• rpm2cpio– Extract cpio archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package

• rpm2tgz/rpm2targz– Mainly supposed for slackware

– Extract tar archive from RPM Package Manager (RPM) package