Installing Your Favorite Apps

摘要

PCQLinux 2008 Core was built from scratch to have a minimal installer and installed footprint so as to be a powerful host system for running virtual appliances that we've provided. However, you can also use Core as a fully capable workstation as well. Although the system comes with a basic set of applications; you might want to add a number of others on top of it as well. There are many ways you can do this. This distribution is based on CentOS 5.1. Therefore it shares the same installer technology as the original-which is the RPM format. RPM stands for RedHat Package Manager after the creators of this packaging method. Using RPMs has an advantage over the normal way of installing apps on Linux-that of downloading and compiling source code to get the binary application. RPMs have all the required files pre-compiled and all it requires to do is place them in the correct location.