I have a file with a .rpm extension that I need to install on redhat. I'm guessing pkgadd would do the trick but it can't find pkgadd anywhere on the system, I did a type, a whereis, a which, no luck.

To manage software on Linux, distributions use packages. The benefit of packages is that during installation, the system traces which files are installed, and that makes it easier to perform ...

i'm trying to install the latest java sdk on mandrake 10.1. the bin extracted fine but when i try to install the rpm file (using "rpm -ivh filename.rpm") it comes up with 2 errors:- cannot open lock ...

If you like the latest and greatest version of everything and you use an RPM based system you probably want to learn how to create RPMs. You don't have to, you can ...