Installing IBM lin_tape and lin_taped on Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

10/02/2009 in Linux, Unix Notes
Tags: IBM, Linux, lin_tape, lin_taped, Red Hat, RHEL, Tape

Installing IBM lin_tape on Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
Steps for install lin_tape and lin_taped
1. Download the lin_tape source and lin_taped from ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/lin_tape_source-lin_taped/
lin_tape-X.YY.Z-W.src.rpm.bin
lin_taped-X.YY.Z-rhel[V].arch.rpm.bin
Samples for version 1.20.0-1
lin_tape-1.20.0-1.src.rpm.bin
lin_taped-1.20.0-rhel4.x86_64.rpm.bin
2. Rebuild lin_tape rpm source
# rpmbuild –rebuild lin_tape-X.YY.Z-W.src.rpm.bin

Extracting files from rpm

09/02/2009 in Fast tip, Linux, Unix Notes

First you need rpm2cpio
Use
# mkdir /tmp/package # cp package.rpm /tmp/package # cd /tmp/package # rpm2cpio package.rpm | cpio -idv
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Checking the install date of Linux Operation System (Red Hat) – Not official, but usefull

04/02/2009 in Linux, Unix Notes

Inglish (português mais abaixo)
The package basesystem contains no files
# rpm -ql basesystem
(contains no files)
But your discription is very clean:
Basesystem defines the components of a basic Red Hat Linux system (for
example, the package installation order to use during bootstrapping).
Basesystem should be the first package installed on a system and it
should never be removed.
You can check Install [...]