| | 1 | = RPM installation instructions = |
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| | 3 | 1. Download http://rpm.netlabs.org/bootstrap/rpm-yum-bootstrap-1_3.wpi. |
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| | 5 | 2. Select a target drive for installation. Consider the following: |
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| | 7 | - 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). |
| | 8 | - 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. |
| | 9 | - 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. |
| | 10 | - Installing the RPM and Unix tree to a sub-folder is not well tested and therefore not yet possible. |
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| | 12 | 3. Start the WPI installer and carefully follow the on-screen instructions. |
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| | 15 | 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. |
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| | 17 | After installation, please read the [http://svn.netlabs.org/rpm/wiki/RpmHowToEndUsers 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. |
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