Chapter 2

Question 1

Packages

Answer 1

collection of files that are installed on the computer. Once installed, most of these contain many many files

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Question 2

Dependency Information

Answer 2

requirements of packages for one another

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Question 3

Checksums

Answer 3

Used to verify or validity of the software. Intended to help spot disk errors

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Question 4

RPM

Answer 4

RPM Package Monitor… because Linux loves terrible recursive acronyms

Most popular package monitor in Linux. It can even be used in some Unix systems

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Question 5

Distros of Red Hat

Answer 5

Red Hat - for pay enterprise
CentOS - Free enterprise
Fedora - Basic home version

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Question 6

Filename Components

Answer 6

Package Name
Version Number
Build Number
Architecture

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Question 7

Yum

Answer 7

one of several meta-packagers. It enables you to install a package and all its dependencies easily using a single command line

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Question 8

rpm operand

-i

Answer 8

Installs a package

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Question 9

rpm operand

-U

Answer 9

Installs a new package or upgrades an existing one

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Question 10

rpm operand

-F or –freshen

Answer 10

Upgrades a package only if an earlier version already exists

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Question 11

rpm operand

-q

Answer 11

Queries a package… is it installed? what files does it contain?

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Question 12

rpm operand

-V or –verify

Answer 12

Verifies a package and checks that its files are present and unchanged since installation

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Question 13

rpm operand

-e

Answer 13

Uninstalls a package

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Question 14

rpm operand

-b

Answer 14

Builds a binary package, given source code and configuration files

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Question 15

rpm operand

–rebuild

Answer 15

Builds a binary package, given a source RPM file; moved to the rpmbuild program with RPM v4.2

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Question 16

rpm operand

-rebuilddb

Answer 16

Rebuild the RPM database to fix errors

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Question 17

rpm option

–root dir

Answer 17

Modifies the Linux systems having a root directory located at dir. This option can be used to maintain one Linux installation discrete from another one

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Question 18

rpm option

–force

Answer 18

Used with operands -i, -U, -F

Forces installation of a package even when it means overwriting existing files or packages

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Question 19

rpm option

-h or –hash

Answer 19

Used with operands -i, -U, -F

Displays a series of hash marks (#) to indicate the progress of the operation

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Question 20

rpm option

-v

Answer 20

Used with operands -i, -U, -F

Used in conjunction with the -h option to produce a uniform number of hash marks for each package

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Question 21

rpm option

–nodeps

Answer 21

Used with operands -i, -U, -F, -e

Specifies that no dependency checks be performed. Installs or removes the package even if it relies on a package or file that’s not present or is required by a package that’s not being uninstalled

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Question 22

rpm option

–test

Answer 22

Used with operands -i, -U, -F

Checks for dependencies, conflicts, and other problems without actually installing the package

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Question 23

rpm option

–prefix path

Answer 23

Used with operands -i, -U, -F

Sets the installation directory to path(works only for some packages)

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Question 24

rpm option

-a or –all

Answer 24

Used with operands -q, -V

Queries or verifies all packages

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Question 25

rpm option

-f file or –file file

Answer 25

Used with operands -q, -V

Queries or verifies the package that owns file

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Question 26

rpm option

-p package-file

Answer 26

Used with operand -q

Queries the uninstalled RPM package-file

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Question 27

rpm option

-i

Answer 27

Used with operand -q

Displays package information, including the package maintainer, a short description, and so on

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Question 28

rpm option

-R or –requires

Answer 28

Used with operand -q

Displays the packages and files on which this one depends

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Question 29

rpm option

-l or –list

Answer 29

Used with operand -q

Displays the files contained in the package

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