rpmfind system maintenance easy.

[Hans Zoebelein <zocki@goldfish.cube.net>]

Hi Blinuxers,

if you are running a Linux installation which understands to handle
rpm packages, there exists a nifty tool called rpmfind.

Rpmfind tries to solve the big problem of finding appropriate
RPM packages on the net. It checks your system and reviews a remote
database to lookup the packages providing the best affinity with
your current software base. It also lists the extra packages that 
you need to install to solve the missing dependencies. Rpmfind can 
also do the transfer and the installation of the found package.

Some usages:

rpmfind --latest mbrola 
will suggest to download the latest available mbrola rpm package
available on the Net. (which can be found at blinux file archive


rpmfind --upgrade rawplay 
will suggest to download the latest available rawplay rpm package
_and_ also offer to download other files need by rawplay to fulfill
dependencies (like libraries).

rpmfind --sources rawplay 
will fetch the source RPM for the rawplay package.

rpmfind --apropos rawplay 
does a lookup in the database for the keyword rawplay.

Before downloading, rpmfind will ask you if you really want to
download the packages with option Yes/No/Auto. After you answered 
y(es) or a(uto) rpmfind will then download  into the /tmp directory. 
If you had chosen a(auto) it also will install automatically.

Using the -v option (=verbose) will increase verbosity during operations.
That's what you'll usually want. 

As of this writing, Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org> the author
of rpmfind is indexing  the rpm structure of the Blinux File archive at
http://www.leb.net/pub/blinux. He will add the file names into the
huge pool of registered rpm packages. About 25000 packages are
registered now. 

Annotation: Our Blinux file archive is now offering over 400 mb in rpm
packages out of a total of 754 mb in archive volume.

rpmfind can be found (sic!) at its home page:
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html
and later today at the Blinux site as  
http://www.leb.net/pub/blinux/rpmfind-1.0-1.i386.rpm (213414 bytes)

Enjoy!
Hans



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