Downloading, placing, and decompressing software
Once you've found software you want to install, your next step is to download it, put it in the proper place, then decompress it (Code Listing 14.1). This process includes several tasks that you've already learned in other parts of this book, so we won't go over them in detail here. For this section, we assume that you already know what you want to download and where it can be found. In the example, we're downloading the latest version of rpm, from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com, in the directory /pub/linux/redhat/code/rpm, with the name rpm-2.5.1.tar.gz.
To download, place, and decompress software:
1. | ftp ftp.cdrom.com |
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