How do I see what's inside an RPM
dbone I used to work on the Bell Labs optimizer for the C compiler. Our marketing department gave us a bunch of about a dozen benchmarks to run so we could prove our compiler...
John-Paul Stewart RHEL4.3 installer doesn't give me a command line, as far as I know, so I can not load arbitrary modules, unless its ncurses-looking...
How does one use mc to see the components of an RPM file?
$ mc -h The Midnight Commander 4.5.51 Usage is:
mc flags thisdir otherpaneldir
-a, --stickchars Force use of +, -, for line drawing. -b, --nocolor Force black and white display. -B, --background DEVEL-ONLY: Debug the background code -c, --color Force color mode. -C, --colors Specify colors (use --help-colors to get a list). -d, --nomouse Disable mouse support. -e, --edit Startup the internal editor. -f, --libdir Print configured paths. -h, --help Shows this help message. -k, --resetsoft Reset softkeys (HP terminals only) to their terminfo-termcap default. -l, --ftplog file Log ftpfs commands to the file. -P, --printwd At exit, print the last working directory. -s, --slow Disables verbose operation (for slow terminals). -t, --termcap Activate support for the TERMCAP variable. -u, --nosubshell Disable the concurrent subshell mode. -U, --subshell Force the concurrent subshell mode. -r, --forceexec Force subshell end. -v, --view fname Start up into the viewer mode. -V, --version Report version and configuration options. -x, --xterm Force xterm mouse support and screen save-restore. +number number it is the start line number of file for `mcedit'. -X, --dbgsubshell DEVEL-ONLY: Debug the subshell.
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