Urpmi

Urpm (User RedHat Package Manager) is a package management system that manages in the Linux distributions Mandriva and Mageia installed the software and to install.

Operation

In the / etc / urpmi / urpmi.cfg file repositories are stored. These sources can be both directories, as well as CDs or FTP server. If the program is now called with a package name, it first searches all sources, whether there are packages with the name. If so, these packets are output. If there is only one result, so in this, the dependencies are checked and reinstalled. Thereafter, the program itself is installed.

Application Examples

  • Urpmi package name installed the package with the given name
  • Urpme Package name removes packages from the system
  • Urpmq Package name lists available packages and provides information (see urpmq man page )
  • Urpmi.addmedia * adds a new package source
  • Urpmi.update source will update the local list of available packages from a source
  • Urpmf file lists all the packages that contain the given file
  • Urpmi -a string installs all packages whose name contains string
  • Urpmi -p file will install the package that contains the given file - this is especially useful when libraries must be installed separately or equivalent ( urpmi -p libxyz.so.0 )
  • Urpmi - auto-select install all updated packages ( updating the entire distribution )

Frontends

There are several front-ends are available with which urpmi can be managed. RPMdrake is included in the default installation of Mandriva Linux already, others can be installed. While RPMdrake and the Smart Package Manager directly access urpmi, can be used by APT- RPM for apt frontend developed (eg Synaptic).

Manpage APT-RPM Advanced Packaging Tool
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