On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Peter Teunissen wrote:
On 12-apr-2007, at 1:05, Greg Folkert wrote:On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:54 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote:I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4, but only found intro's in the other direction :-) I'm sure others on this list have had the same challengeBut this is debian. Why not ask RH for a transistion guide? One doesn't ask Microsoft for help transitioning to Debian.<snip>I am sure that he really meant the other way, "a RHEL User's introduction to Debian (and its far superior tools and ways)" I hope. I really hope. But since he is is using RH, I am afraid not.<snip>I'm a happy Debian user and will not move to RH. But. As I wrote in my question, I'm _forced_ to use RHEL4 at my job.Since more debianites will have been in this situation, I think it's not inappropriate to ask on this list for pointers to a RH intro for Debian users...Peter
here are some handy rpm commands I use a lot rpm -qa | grep package - see if the package is installed rpm -q --whatprovides /path/to/file - what package owns this file rpm --setperms package - fix permissions on that package rpm -Va - verify all packages rpm -Vp package - verify packageup2date -l > package.list - just so i can have a list of packages available
up2date -i package - install a packagedo this to rebuild the rpm database, cause you know it will get corruped at some point:
cd /var/lib/rpm/ mkdir ~/rpm.db.bak mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* ~/rpm.bak rpm -vv --rebuilddb -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.