I have installed a package from source, now I want to upgrade the older version to new version which is available.
How can I upgrade already installed source package on my system?
Ans : This question arises to all the admins who do installation from source package. To upgrade a source package follow the same steps to you have did at the time of first installation through source. Package as shown below..
Step1: unpack … Continue Reading
In Linux we can install packages in so many ways such as:
#rpm –ivh packagename.ver.arch.rpm
This is to install from rpm package manager
#yum install packagename
This is installing through yum which will use rpm package manager internally
#apt-get install packagename
This is for installing .deb packages
This is for installing .deb packages
#sh file.sh
This is from a shell script.
#./configure;make;make check;make install
This is to install from source package.
This is to install from source package.
Etc. but when we want to uninstall above … Continue Reading
If you are looking for YUM server in RHEL5(Redhat Enterprise Linux version 5) you can click here other wise just read on..
Recently I came across a strange requirement.. i.e. implementing YUM(Yellow dog Updater and Modifier) server in RHEL4 
. By the time of RHEL4 release there is no YUM server implementation..
so I did some research and collected some documentation on net and implemented YUM server in RHEL4
configuring YUM server in RHEL4 … Continue Reading
Creating RPM packages from Source
To start of this topic most of the times RPM packages will come as source file. This have some advantage and disadvantage
first coming to disadvantage there is no direct command to install this source file on linux server so for newbabys it very diffucult to install the packages and coming to advantage we can compile this source packages to what ever platform we want so we are now going … Continue Reading
Part2 :
So coming to advanced RPM management here I am going to discuss how to convert .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 files,src.rpm files to rpm packages? So that its very much easy to install the packages by using rpm command.
New releases of Linux programs are generally released in the tar.gz format consisting of source code of the application. Normally you will compile these programs but at times they throw some compiler errors on your screen which … Continue Reading
Package management in Linux is very much tedious job when compared to windows systems. Basically if we consider windows its very much easy even for LKG student will install the packages(in windows we will call it as softwares) very much easy main windows software packages are .exe or .bat or .msi or .cab files we will just double click it will install the package for you with minimal system knowledge this is all about … Continue Reading
