Installing software from RPM

What is RPM

RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager.

Installing and upgrading RPM packages

For installing a software package, use rpm command with -i option ( i stands for "install").

# rpm -i sweep-2.3.4.rpm

To upgrade use -U option instead (stands for "upgrade").
# rpm -U sweep-2.3.4.rpm

To download an application from terminal/website, use the ff:

yum install.
# yum install sweep

Or

#wget source website like. (wget is a command line only tool )
wget http://site/sweep.tar.gz

Procedure to install Sweep on Linux

SWEEP

Install all library dependencies


1. install libmad-0.15.1b-1.fc2.i386.rpm

• rpm –ivh libmad-0.15.1b-1.fc2.i386.rpm


2. install libsndfile

• rpm –ivh libsndfile-1.0.10-2.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm


3. install libsamplerate

• rpm –libsamplerate-0.1.2-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm


4. install sweep

• rpm-Uvh sweep-0.8.3-1.rhfc2.ccrma.i386.rpm

Converting Log file into *.csv.

To convert logs into csv file.

cat /var/log/squid/access.log | awk -F\ '{ print strftime("%D", $1),$0;}'
| grep 192\.168\.60\.52 > /opt/logs.csv