Tips rpm to install using the package in Redhat familly

This post, i will show the tips and trick for install package rpm in Fedora (redhat familly). For example we will install tcpdump. first we need a package tcpdump it self. my favorite package repository is in here . after we get the package that we need. we just try to install it with this command.

rpm -ivh tcpdump-4.1.1-2.fc15.i686.rpm

As usuall we will get the error message about depedency. so we must get the depedency that needed. after we get the depedency libpcap-1.1.1-3.fc15.i686.rpm. we can execute the command with

rpm -ivh tcpdump-4.1.1-2.fc15.i686.rpm libpcap-1.1.1-3.fc15.i686.rpm 

so why we need to collect the package together to be one command execution because to avoid the looping depedency. but actualy we can list depedency it first before we install. with this command

rpm -qpR {.rpm-file}
rpm -qR {package-name}

and to check the package already install or not we can use

rpm -qi package-name

the other tips is to update package. for example we want make sure or package is ok and don't have problem so just type

rpm -Uvh --test * 

after we sure about our package so we just execute

rpm -Uvh * 

but if we want to delete a package that we build from package rpm. for example rsync. we can use

#rpm -qa | grep rsync
rsync-3.0.8-1.fc15.i686

after that we can unistall the package with this command

#rpm -e rsync-3.0.8-1.fc15.i686