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Unit 4: Installing Software

7. Illustrate how to use the query mode of RPM. Notes
8. Briefly explain Linux developer’s utility “make”.

9. Discuss the process of Upgrading RPM packages using GnoRPM.
10. Illustrate the use of README or INSTALL files in the program archive.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. RPM 2. end user
3. meta-data 4. Reinstallation
5. pristine 6. Install
7. query 8. -e

9. Gnome-RPM 10. Tarballs
11. make 12. -prefix
13. .deb 14. Dselect
15. bunzip2 (file name)

4.7 Further Readings

Books Christopher Negus, Linux Bible, Wiley.
Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love and Arnold Robbins,
Linux in a Nutshell, O’Reilly Media.
Wale Soyinka, Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide, McGraw-Hill Osborne
Media.

Dee-Ann LeBlan and Richard K. Blum, Linux for Dummies.
Brian Ward, How Linux Works, No Starch Press.

Online links http://www.control-escape.com/linux/lx-swinstall.html

http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/27.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html

http://polishlinux.org/first-steps/installing-software/

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