Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Ugo Bellavance wrote:
The question was "... whithout having a package manager installed (ie no rpm).
This is also answer to everybody else who was nitpicking...
I believe that OP ment a GUI front end when he said "no package manager". If he's running CentOS, then he has rpm installed, and most of his system (if not everything) was installed by rpm. I fail to understand why so many people are trying to be smart, instead of being helpfull. Luckily, at least Jay (haven't checked entire thread, maybe there were others) gave a helpfull answer (hint to the OP, "man rpm" contains answer to your question, as well as many other usefull options for rpm command).
You know, there's difference between "smart" and "smart ass". Nitpicking will more often get you closer to later then the former ;-)
I tried to help. This is not a _real_ question. It is a question that has been asked in a job interview. A trap. Please re-read the thread. If you don't understand, just go to the next thread, it is not very important.
Regards, Ugo