On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 02:12 +0800, Nathan Huang wrote: > who can tell me what does this syntax mean? > > su -c 'rpm -Uvh /path to rpm/VMware-player-2.0.0-45731.i386.rpm' In addition to the other replies, see the man files for the su and rpm commands. man su man rpm -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines