RPM&YUM for OS/2

Self-installing WarpIN package. See below for download link(s) and detailed installation instructions. RPM-YUM "i386" package is for generic i386 architecture, while "p4" package is for modern PCs based on Pentium 4 processor or better.

Once the installation is completed, you can remove the WarpIN package.

• Repository is also browsable at url: http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/
• Zip format packages are availables at url: http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT RPM-YUM:

Selecting a target drive for installation, consider the following:

• The target drive should be big enough to install all software you need from RPM repositories. A good estimate is 5G of free space (this counts future RPM releases of big applications like Java, OpenOffice and so on). If you are a developer, you should double this reserve (so that it can fit the compiler and various frameworks).
• The installer will create a simplified Unix tree on the target drive. This single tree will be used by all software ported from Unix/Linux and distributed with RPM.
• It is a good idea to select the boot volume as a target drive for the RPM installation (provided that it is big enough). This way, all system components, including those installed from RPM repositories, will live on a single drive and not interfere with your personal data (or with your custom installations of applications from ZIP archives) which we recommend to store on a separate partition.Installing the RPM and Unix tree to a sub-folder is not well tested and therefore not yet possible.

Start the WPI installer and carefully follow the on-screen instructions, briefly:

• When the self-installing WarpIN package finish, you must restart the system to validate the new statements and changes made into configuration files.
• On the next reboot, let's connect to the Internet, open the command window that was created by the bootstrap yum WarpIN package (now there is a folder on the desktop) and type inside the command 'yum install yum' (which guarantees the installation of the latest updated version available for RPM/YUM for OS/2 and eComStation and simultaneously generating the first Unix-style branch on the root disk selected to install).
• After installation, the transitional yum bootstrap WarpIN package can be uninstalled, strongly recommended, since the bootstrap basically has a transitional function and uses different paths, libraries and tools that may not be at the same level of the last version available just installed via Internet, also will not be liable in the potential risk of using its console to install other software!
• At this point you can manage RPM repositories from a command window (read the documentation about it) and start installing the software you desire.