CIS 228 - Oakton Community College



CIS 228 - UNIX System Administration

Lab Exercise 6: RPM and non-RPM software maintenance

0) Boot into Fedora

1) Use RPM to query what “glibc” products are installed

2) Use YUM to query what “glibc” products are installed

3) Mount the installation media at /mnt/cdrom. How?

4) Use RPM to install emacs from local media. Are there any dependencies? Resolve them using RPM. Use YUM to see if there is an emacs upgrades on the Internet.

5) Use YUM to install VNC and VNC server from the Internet.

6) Use RPM to see what games are installed. What’s the equivalent YUM command?

7) Use YUM to query GNOME games. Is a new version available? Install it.

8) Locate the latest Opera Browser RPM on the Internet. Install it with RPM.

9) ftp to the Instructor machine per instruction and pickup file bb-1_3a_tar.gz using user1 id.

10) Unwrap the tarball and read the README instruction files

11) Install (but not configure) the resulting package.

Repeat the above for Ubuntu

Save VM images as Week2_Ubuntu. Week2_Fedora. Copy to your USB Drive.

Relate commands: tar, rpm, yum, make (Makefile)

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