A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Unit 8: Installing Software in Linux Chapter 13: Downloading and Installing Software By Fred R. McClurg Linux Operating System © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved

rpm: RedHat Package Manager Description: CLI for installs, uninstalls, upgrades, queries Installs ◦ rpm -Uvh \ samba fc14.i686.rpm

yum: Yellow Dog Updater, Modified Description: CLI for installs, uninstalls, upgrades, queries and checks dependencies ◦ Command line utility ◦ Already installed ◦ Checks for compatibility ◦ Checks for dependencies ◦ Installs required software ◦ Upgrades out of date software

yum: Options yum install ◦ Description: Downloads and installs software from yum repository. Installs any dependant packages ◦ Syntax:  yum install vim-enhanced yum remove ◦ Description: Removes specified packages ◦ Syntax:  yum remove vim-enhanced

yum: Options yum list ◦ Description: Lists all packages in the yum repository ◦ Syntax:  yum list | grep -i vim yum search ◦ Description: Searches the string in the package description, summary and name ◦ Syntax:  yum search vim

Adding/Removing Software Fedora ◦ gpk-application :  GUI for adding and removing software RHEL ◦ pirut :  GUI for adding and removing software

Compile/Install Source Code 1. tar -xvzf src.tar.gz and 2../configure 3. make 4. sudo make install or 2../configure && make && sudo make install

Downloading without Browser wget: ◦ Allows you to download files without a browser wget \ wget -b \

Using ftp ftp prep.ai.mit.edu ◦ User: anonymous cd pub/gnu/gcc ls cd gcc lcd c:\Users\Fred\Downloads binary get gcc tar.gz quit