Rinse

Rinse is a simple tool which is designed to carry out the installation of a new RPM-based distribution.

It was primarily designed to work with the xen-tools software, which creates new guest images for running inder the Xen hypervisor.

Using rinse you can easily setup simple chroot() systems running different RPM-based distributions, such as Centos or Scientific Linux.

Download

You may download the current stable release from the following links:

• rinse-2.0.1 .tar.gz

This software is part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and can be installed directly via the Debian repository.

If you'd like to try something more cutting edge please see the rinse mercurial repository.

Requirements

To install & use this software you'll need several dependencies:

• rpm & rpm2cpio
  • To unpack the RPM packages.
• perl