installing rpms on FC3

[Janina Sajka]

Advantages of rpm? Dependency management and version control.

You can certainly install by hand, man rpm is your friend. Example:

rpm -Uv [some.app.rpm]

The preferred rpm front end these days is yum. You should examine
/etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/ and then run a command like:

yum update

PS: You may also wish to add the recently opened Fedora Extras
repository:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/

Raul A. Gallegos writes:
> Hi.  Where can I read on this or can someone give me some quick 
> pointers.  I'd like to install some additional software on this FC3 box 
> such as CenterICQ and a bittorrent client.  These are not installed by 
> default so my question is how do I go about getting rpm packages?  Is 
> there an automated way of doing this or do I just download the rpms from 
> the sites they are offered on and run some rpm install command?
> 
> Also, what is the advantage of installing rpms over just installing by 
> hand such as:
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> style of installations?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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