From 0bd5b378d7118e59890578d398c31d43d608375c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ivan Leo Murray-Smith Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:45:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improved RPM installation instructions. --- documentation/installing.sgml | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/installing.sgml b/documentation/installing.sgml index 043aa59ec1e..477031bf7f0 100644 --- a/documentation/installing.sgml +++ b/documentation/installing.sgml @@ -86,23 +86,29 @@ - Red Hat (RPM) Linux + Linux Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse and other distributions using RPM - Switch to the directory you downloaded the RPM package file to. + Most distributions provide a graphical tool for installing + RPM packages, you can use it by simply clicking (Or double clicking, + depending on your system settings) on the RPM. If you don't have a + graphical RPM manager installed, using a shell, switch to the + directory where you downloaded the RPM package file to. Once there, type this one command as root, adapting the package file name as required: - # rpm -ivh wine-20020605-2.i386.rpm + # rpm -ivh wine-20031212.i386.rpm You may also want to install the wine-devel package. - Uninstalling an installed Wine RPM package can be done by - running: + If you've installed wine graphically, you can uninstall it + using your graphical RPM manager (Gnorpm, Kpackage, Yast, + Mandrake Control Center and so on), alternatively, uninstalling + a installed Wine RPM package can be done from a shell, by running: # rpm -qa|grep -i wine