It's a "recipe". You have to replace "path to rpm" by the actual path to VMware-player-2.0.0-45731.i386.rpm. In detail: su -c runs the command as enquoted as root. You will be prompted for the root password. The command itself is rpm (install/ update etc.), the switches -Uvh mean: -U: Upgrade -v: verbose -h: hash, i.e. print 50 hash marks while unpacking VMware-player-2.0.0-45731.i386.rpm. The remaining part of the rpm command is path and *.rpm for the upgrade. Installing/Upgrading, in general, demands for root rights. Joerg Am 14.07.2009 20:12, schrieb Nathan Huang:
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' thanks nathan
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