RPM package

Table of contents

• Install package
• Upgrade installation
• Uninstall package

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[!IMPORTANT] Installing Salomon using packages is currently experimental. Installing, upgrading and uninstalling is possible, but is not yet fully developed.

Install package

You can install Salomon as follows. In this example version 1.24.0-1.

[!WARNING] Do not install Salomon via the package if it already was installed using its installation script before.

In this case, backup all relevant configs from the current installation and uninstall it also by using the installation script. Then, remove the directory /opt/salomon (if still existing) entirely.

Simply install the package using rpm (or via package manager):

rpm -ivh salomon-1.24.0-1.noarch.rpm

When successful, Salomon has been installed to /opt/salomon as usual.

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Upgrade installation

You can upgrade Salomon for example from version 1.23.2-1 to version 1.24.0-1 as follows.

[!NOTE] Even though, the modified and added files should remain untainted, backup all relevant configs to avoid any loss of data.

rpm -Uvh salomon-1.24.0-1.noarch.rpm

This will upgrade Salomon, but keep salomon.cfg as well as all config files inside the colors and filters sub-directories untained. However, no files with the .rpmnew suffix will be created in case the configs differ from those included in the package.

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Uninstall package

You can uninstall Salomon also using rpm (or via package manager) as follows.

[!NOTE] Even though, the modified and added files should remain untainted, backup all relevant configs to avoid any loss of data.

rpm -ev salomon

Post-uninstall states

After uninstalling one of the following states exists, depending on if you modified the installation or kept it untainted.

Modified installation

For example, if the files inside the /opt/salomon directory were changed the following way

• salomon.cfg was modified
• colors/log_colors.cfg was modified
• colors/maillog.cfg was modified
• colors/users.cfg was added

those files will remain after uninstalling.

The directory /opt/salomon then still exists, containing the modified files with the additional suffix .rpmsave and the added files without any file name change.

/opt/salomon
├── colors
│   ├── log_colors.cfg.rpmsave
│   ├── maillog.cfg.rpmsave
│   └── users.cfg
└── salomon.cfg.rpmsave

This way, you can backup the corresponding files (if needed) and remove /opt/salomon entirely.

Untainted installation

In case you neither changed any file nor added new ones inside /opt/salomon and its sub-directories, removing it will also entirely remove this directory.

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