Re: [K12OSN] Simple RPM question

Jim Wildman (jim@rossberry.com)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:49:43 -0500 (EST) 

You might have to uninstall one before installing the other.  Also from
the command line you can install more than one at a time to solve
dependencies.

rpm -Uvh is often preferred (U for upgrade, v for verbose and h for neat
little hash mark things)

rpm -Fvh * will take every rpm in the current directory and upgrade the
corresponding package IF it is already installed (F for freshen)

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Michael Cortes wrote:

> I am currently trying to accomplish a much needed update of my RPMs.  I started 
> by d/ling updated RPMs from RHN and would just use the Gnome file manager and 
> double click on RPMs once I d/led them to my linux box.  However, it was giving 
> me dependency errors.
> 
> For example, I have netscape-common-4.75-2 and d/led 4.77 and when I double-
> clicked the RPM, it told me it had a dependency on 4.76....Should I have 
> installed it anyway?  I could not find 4.76 for d/l on the RedHat website.
> 
> I suppose I can use "RPM -u" which i think is the command line update for RPMs. 
>  Would this alleviate my dependency problems, or is it necessary to step up the 
> RPMs with all the intermediate versions?
> 
> Also, I like to use RHN (my one free System) to know what updates there are and 
> what I need to update.  Is there anyway to update the listing of installed 
> packages from my RH system on RHN?
> 
> I know there are few questions above.  Thank you for your help.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Cortes
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