On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:17:42PM -0500, Jud Craft wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Nathan > Huang<nathan.vorbei.tech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi guys > > who can tell me what does this syntax mean? > > > > su -c 'rpm -Uvh /path to rpm/VMware-player-2.0.0-45731.i386.rpm' > > This command looks like it will ask for your root password, and then > it will install or update the VMWare Player package. More specifically, it switches user to root (thus prompting for password), and runs that command as root. The 'path to rpm' part is something you're expected to fill in with the actual location of the rpm package file. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
