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notes 12. The make command uses the ....................... to create installable binaries.
13. Scripts need an interpreter to be installed on the system they will run on – most Linux
systems will already have ....................... for the most common scripting languages.
14. GnoRPM allows the end-user to easily work with ....................... technology.
15. Some packages might need some additional ....................... or might suffer from dependency
issues, so it makes sense to know what’s needed.

7.8 review Questions

1. What is RPM Package Manager?
2. How to use RPM?
3. “The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is an open packaging system”. Explain.

4. What is Gnome-RPM?
5. How to start Gnome-RPM from an Xterm window?
6. What are several parts to the Gnome-RPM interface?
7. Briefly explain Linux developer’s utility “make”.
8. In your opinion the RPM -e command removes a package from your system? How

9. “The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package
management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating
computer software packages.” Comment
10. Explain how installing a package places all of the components of that package on your
system in the correct locations.

answers: self assessment

1. RedHat Package Manager 2. Open

3. Mandrake and SuSE Linux. 4. Gnome-RPM
5. James Henstridge 6. meta-data
7. Configuration files 8. end-user
9. make 10. overwritten
11. files 12. Makefile

13. Interpreters 14. RPM
15. libraries

7.9 further readings

Books Brian Ward, How Linux Works, No Starch Press.

Christopher Negus, Linux Bible, Wiley.
Dee-Ann LeBlan and Richard K. Blum, Linux for Dummies.

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