Re: [LUG] first e-mail from Linux

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 23:32, Rick Timmis wrote:
> jon davey wrote:
>
> > Hi, all.  This is my first mail from Mandrake, thought that had to be 
> > listworthy.  I'm damned if I can install softwear from cd though.  I need a 
> > package manager...don't I.
> > Jon Davey
>
> Get a coffee, and some chocolate sit down click the Xterm icon and type 
> man rpm, read from top to bottom. and you won;t need a package manager 
> any more
>
> Rick.

rpm is a package manager, as it dpkg etc.  Hence rpm standing for "Red
Hat Package Manager"

Alex.



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