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Red Hat's Anaconda Installation Package



 Chuck,

   rpm -ihv xxx.rpm will install the source files in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.
You'll usually see a gzipped tar file and several patch files; tar -zxvf the tar
file, apply the patches, and hack away....

 Dave Gavin



On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:57:19 -0400
Chuck Noyes <vze284qe at verizon.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to play with Red Hat's 8.0 anaconda installation package.
> The sources are in a SRPM file.
> Does anyone know how to install this rpm file?
> I don't think the standard rpm -ivh command works with
> source RPMs and RH's doc pages aren't very helpfull.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chuck
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