[Wolves] SuSE'rs

[Simon Burke]

On 4/3/04 9:43 am, "Adam Sweet" <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- "simonb+geek-web.co.uk" <simonb at geek-web.co.uk>
> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 22:18, Mo Awkati wrote:
>>> Ron, A big thanks from me too. :-)
>>> 
>>> The only question I have is: once you are at the
>>> command line and you type rpm etc how does the
>> command
>>> know where to look for the package? for example,
>> how
>>> does it know the package is on afloppy and not a
>>> CD-ROM?
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Mo
>>> 
>> I'm guessing that it parses the files in
>> /var/lib/urpmi/ where the list
>> of available packages (per OS install medium), of
>> what's installed and
>> of updates is. Or at least that is where it is on my
>> machine...
> 
> Or you can specify the exact path to the rpm if you
> downloaded it. Probably.
> 
> Ad
> 
Yeah there that too, good old $>rpm -***
/home/user/Documents/moo-1.0.4-i586.rpm or whatever heh