Installation guide

IV. Package Management............................................................................................................215
25. Package Management with RPM .............................................................................. 217
25.1. RPM Design Goals........................................................................................ 217
25.2. Using RPM..................................................................................................... 218
25.3. Checking a Package’s Signature .................................................................223
25.4. Impressing Your Friends with RPM ..........................................................224
25.5. Additional Resources ................................................................................... 227
26. Gnome-RPM ................................................................................................................ 229
26.1. Starting Gnome-RPM .................................................................................. 230
26.2. The Package Display..................................................................................... 231
26.3. Installing New Packages .............................................................................. 232
26.4. Configuration................................................................................................. 233
26.5. Package Manipulation.................................................................................. 238
27. Red Hat Network.........................................................................................................243
V. Appendixes ............................................................................................................................... 245
A. Building a Custom Kernel ........................................................................................... 247
A.1. Building a Modularized Kernel ................................................................... 247
A.2. Making an initrd Image ................................................................................249
A.3. Configuring the Boot Loader ....................................................................... 249
A.4. Building a Monolithic Kernel....................................................................... 252
A.5. Additional Resources .................................................................................... 252
B. Getting Started with Gnu Privacy Guard ................................................................. 253
B.1. An Introduction to GnuPG........................................................................... 253
B.2. Generating a Keypair..................................................................................... 253
B.3. Generating a Revocation Certificate ............................................................255
B.4. Exporting your Public Key............................................................................ 256
B.5. Importing a Public Key.................................................................................. 258
B.6. What Are Digital Signatures? ....................................................................... 259
B.7. Additional Resources ..................................................................................... 259
Index ................................................................................................................................................ 261