Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, William Park wrote:
> I have question about 'rpm' usage.  How do you extract the files into
> current directory, without converting .rpm to .tgz?
>     rpm -i --prefix /path/to/current/dir kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.tgz
>     "package kernel-BOOT is not relocateable"

Try:

  rpm -i --root /path/to/current/dir --nodeps kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm

That's what I usually use for this.  (Although I write $(pwd) instead of
typing in the path myself.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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