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RPM installation instructions
- Download http://rpm.netlabs.org/bootstrap/rpm-yum-bootstrap-1_3.wpi.
- Select a target drive for installation. Consider the following:
- The target drive should be big enough to install all software you need from RPM repositories. A good estimate is 5G of free space (this counts future RPM releases of big applications like Java, OpenOffice and so on). If you are a developer, you should double this reserve (so that it can fit the compiler and various frameworks).
- The installer will create a simplified Unix tree on the target drive. This single tree will be used by all software ported from !Unix/!Linux and distributed with RPM.
- It is a good idea to select the boot volume as a target drive for the RPM installation (provided that it is big enough). This way, all system components, including those installed from RPM repositories, will live on a single drive and not interfere with your personal data (or with your custom installations of applications from ZIP archives) which we recommend to store on a separate partition.
- Installing the RPM and Unix tree to a sub-folder is not well tested and therefore not yet possible.
- Start the WPI installer and carefully follow the on-screen instructions.
Please keep in mind that while it is possible in principle to move the Unix tree together with all software installed from RPM to a different drive later, this operation requires special knowledge. Therefore, it is recommended to plan the hard disk space usage before installing RPM, as described above.
After installation, please read the RPM How-To for End Users that describes the basics of YUM and RPM which you need to know in order to install and remove software distributed as RPM packages.
