On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 11:17, Stuart Sears wrote: > This is totally unneccessary. Unless the downloaded file is a self-installing > package that you run directly, it does not need to be executable at all. > You can skip this part. You're right, I think. I ran into that problem when installing Java as a self-installing package from Sun. > > Still as root, execute "rpm -i " followed by the name of the package. > fine. Personally I would favour > rpm -Uvh apt-<whatever>.noarch.rpm I understand the U and v flags, but what does the h flag do? (Just so I'm clear on how to use rpm effectively.) Thanks a lot for the other advice--very valuable indeed. Temlakos
