On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 11 May 2013 15:07:04 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 14:16 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/11/2013 01:40 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I need to install a single file from an RPM, namely
- RPM gnome-keyring-3.6.3-1.fc18.i686
- File: /usr/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
The first thing you need to do is RTFM:
rpm -i gnome-keyring-3.6.3-1.fc18.i686 -f gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
should do the trick. (Please note that I haven't actually done this, but man rpm tells me that it will work and I presume that whoever wrote that knew what they were doing.)
If only. The -f option applies only to queries,
Not true.
Seems to only apply to querying and verifying packages at least according to the man page for rpm and rpm --help.
eg. $ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so gnome-keyring-3.6.3-1.fc18.x86_64 to discover which rpm provides the specified file.
Just to make sure, I tried the following, adding a ".rpm" in case of a typo. $ rpm -i gnome-keyring-3.6.3-1.fc18.i686 -f gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so error: gnome-keyring-3.6.3-1.fc18.i686: not an rpm package (or package manifest): error: open of gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so failed: No such file or directory $ rpm -i gnome-keyring-3.6.3-1.fc18.i686.rpm -f gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so error: open of gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so failed: No such file or directory
Well, obviously the RPM package to install must be available as a local file. The "No such fule or directory" error message should be clear in this regard.
Back to option -f, it's a list of packages when used with e.g. -i, so you can do stuff like
rpm -if /example/list.txt
with "list.txt" containing a list of package file names.
I think the -f is being ignored in this case. The PACKAGE_FILE can be a manifest as you describe and the command given above works just the same without the -f.
John