Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:30:08PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> Okey, I am downloading 
>     kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm
> also.
> 
> Thanks, yes, I see /boot/config-...
> 
> 
> I have question about 'rpm' usage.  How do you extract the files into
> current directory, without converting .rpm to .tgz?
> 
> I tried
>     rpm -i --prefix /path/to/current/dir kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.tgz
> but I get error message
>     "package kernel-BOOT is not relocateable"

Why would you want to?  And doesn't rpm have an extract rather than
install option?  Or use alien to convert to a tgz.  I still can't
imagine wanting to do that though.

Lennart Sorensen
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