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4.1.9 Other RPM Options and Resources

You may want to learn how to build your own RPMs, sign them with your PGP signature, rebuild your RPM database, or install packages throught the FTP options to RPM. Since this document is intended for beginning Linux users, we will not go into those options here. It's good to know that these options are all avaialbe to you. Here are some other resources about RPM, if you would like to learn more.

• [RPM Web Site]http://www.rpm.org
• [RPM FTP Site]ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub
• [Maximum RPM]a book by Ed Bailey. It's available in hardback and is 442 pages long and includes a quick reference card. The book covers everything from general RPM usage to building your own RPMs to programming with rpmlib. There is a link on the RPM Web Site where you can download the compressed file of the book in PostScript or L^ATEX .
• [Red Hat Web Site]http://www.redhat.com

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