= RPM How-To for end users =
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Basic informations for end users about installing, upgrading and removing packages with RPM and YUM.

RPM Website: http://www.rpm.org/

YUM commands MAN page: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/yum8.html

== Handy YUM and RPM commands

||'''yum install''' __pkg__              ||Install the latest version of the package named __pkg__ (including all packages it needs for its work, if any)
||'''yum remove''' __pkg__               ||Uninstall the package named __pkg__ (including all installed packages that need the removed one, if any)
||'''yum check-update'''                 ||List available updates (newer versions) for all installed packages
||'''yum update'''                       ||Install all available updates (if any)
||'''yum update''' __pkg__               ||Only update the package named __pkg__ (if there is a newer version)
||'''yum info''' __pkg__                 ||Show information about the package named __pkg__
||'''yum list installed'''               ||List all installed packages
||'''yum list avaliable''' qt*           ||List all available packages with names starting from "qt"
||'''yum list'''   *zip*                 ||List all packages containing "zip" in names (both installed and available)
||'''yum clean packages'''               ||Delete all downloaded files containing installed packages (packages themselves are not uninstalled)

== Platform selection for binaries ==
The default base architecture setting for RPM/YUM is the i386 platform; if you own a i686 CPU (PentiumPro and above), you can tell YUM to inspect i686 package list first, and fallback to i386 if none found.
To enable i686, create a 'platform' text file in your %UNIXROOT%\etc\rpm directory with the following text in it:
{{{
i686-OS/2-OS/2
}}}
Binaries are getting built also for Pentium4 and above processors, use the following text to enable this:
{{{
pentium4-OS/2-OS/2
}}}
Access to pentium4 packages requires the latest YUM package.


== Note about upgrading from 2010 RPM builds ==
Newer RPM builds are now using Berkeley DB for storing package informations, while previous builds were using SqLite 3 for this task. Since SqLite support is being phased out, RPM moved to BDB.
After updating you need to convert the old database to the new format: you can check this running
{{{
rpm -qa
}}}
at the command prompt; you will get a SIGSEV error or a message about wrong database format:

{{{
[E:\]rpm -qa
rpmdb: __db_meta_setup: /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file type or
 format
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm
rpmdb: __db_meta_setup: /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file type or
 format
error: cannot open Packages database in /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm
}}}

To upgrade the database, use the following command sequence:
{{{
rpm --define '_dbapi 4' --rebuilddb
mv /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm.bak
mv /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm.rebuild /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm
}}}
You can test operation running
{{{
rpm -qa
}}}
you will get the list of installed packages.
The older SqLite databases are now saved into mv /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm.bak, if everything is ok you can delete this directory.