The University of Edinburgh Linux


Redhat 6.2 information for syssies


updaterpms

updaterpms is a tool to manage the RPMs installed on a Linux machine.
RPMs in Informatics (abridged version) [html] [pdf]
This abridged tech-note describes the use of the RPM (RedHat Package Manager) in Informatics ; in particular, how a user submits an RPM package for installation and restrictions we place on such user-submitted RPM packages.
Early (1997) Linux deployment progress talk [pdf]
This talk was written to give syssies an idea of what Linux was about, in particular from the system admin point of view.

Alastair Scobie ajs@dcs.ed.ac.uk