need to manualy unpack a .rpm

**tr_wright1** · 05-20-2005

Hello,

i have fought and fought to try to get rpm to work but have given up, can someone tell me how to extract a .rpm file?

Thanks

**jaboua** · 05-20-2005

I don't know how it's compressed, but I know that file-roller is fully able to unpack it...

**tr_wright1** · 05-21-2005

hmmm, that could be a problem as i don't have the file roller (this is the handheld machine).

**jaboua** · 05-21-2005

Oh, I thought it was the redhat9 computer... Maybe you can copy it over to the rh9 somehow and extract it there and then copy it back?

**AndrewB** · 05-21-2005

why wont it install normally?

**tr_wright1** · 05-21-2005

it won't read the packages index and list and i don't have patiences or space to mess around (16MB).

**blackmagicwa** · 05-31-2005

Lets just make sure we remember to cover the obvious, we extract a rpm from command line like so, i need'nt remind you this should be done as root:

Code:

rpm -ihv packagename.rpm

Paramaters do as follows:
i - tells rpm to 'install' (as oppose to 'u' which tells rpm to 'update')
h - tells rpm to output some hash(#) loading bars so you can mointor progress
v - tells rpm to be 'verbose' - i.e. tell you what it's doing rather than just stare blankly at you

**tr_wright1** · 05-31-2005

this is exactly what i have been doing but i have been getting the database errors and i can't rebuild the rpm database.

Thread Tools

Display

need to manualy unpack a .rpm

Posting Permissions