<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >General Information</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="RPM HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Overview" HREF="overview.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Using RPM" HREF="use.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="oswg.css"></HEAD ><BODY ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >RPM HOWTO: RPM at Idle</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="overview.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="use.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="GEN-INFO" >3. General Information</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="ACQUIRE" >3.1. Acquiring RPM</A ></H2 ><P > The best way to get RPM is to install Red Hat Linux. If you don't want to do that, you can still get and use RPM. It can be acquired from <A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/rpm" TARGET="_top" >ftp.redhat.com</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="REQUIRE" >3.2. RPM Requirements</A ></H2 ><P > RPM itself should build on basically any Unix-like system. It has been built and used on Tru64 Unix, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, and basically all flavors of Linux. </P ><P > To build RPMs from source, you also need everything normally required to build a package, like <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >gcc</I >, <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >make</I >, etc. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="overview.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="use.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Overview</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Using RPM</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >