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RPM-for-Unix HOW-TO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor[AT]yahoo.com

v1.8, 27 Mar 2002

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This document will help you to setup Redhat RPM program on various Unix operating systems like Solaris, AIX, Irix, HPUX and many others. The information in this document applies to all flavors of Unix like - Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Sinix, BSD, NetBSD, Apple Macintosh (which is BSD), UnixWare, etc.. and may be useful to other operating systems (MS Windows 2000) which support "C" compiler.

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1. Introduction

2. Install RPM

• 2.1 Get Gnu "gcc"
• 2.2 Get BerkeleyDB

3. BerkeleyDB and gcc

• 3.1 Solaris - BerkeleyDB and gcc
• 3.2 AIX - BerkeleyDB and gcc
• 3.3 IRIX Silicon Graphics - BerkeleyDB and gcc
• 3.4 HPUX - BerkeleyDB and gcc
• 3.5 UnixWare - BerkeleyDB and gcc
• 3.6 Apple Macintosh OS X (Unix) - BerkeleyDB and gcc

4. Compiling RPM

• 4.1 Troubleshooting RPM Compile

5. Using RPM

• 5.1 Basic RPM Commands
• 5.2 RPM Build Commands
• 5.3 RPM Query Commands
• 5.4 RPM Verify Commands

6. Installing 8000 RPMs

• 6.1 Bootstrap Programs - The Rocket Soars Up!!
• 6.2 Install Foundation RPMs
• 6.3 Troubleshoot Building Foundation RPMs

7. Create gcc RPM Package

• 7.1 Solaris Sparc gcc, glibc, kernel-headers and binutils
• 7.2 PowerPC gcc, glibc, kernel-headers and binutils
• 7.3 Create glibc RPM

8. Use Debian Packages - Convert deb to rpm

• 8.1 Debian Packing Program
• 8.2 Debian to Redhat RPM

9. Convert RPM to Solaris Package rpm2pkg

10. Related URLs

11. Other Formats of this Document

• 11.1 Acrobat PDF format
• 11.2 Convert Linuxdoc to Docbook format
• 11.3 Convert to MS WinHelp format
• 11.4 Reading various formats
• 11.5 Convert HTML to SGML html2sgml

12. Copyright

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