Re: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?

[Hugo Gayosso <hgayosso gnu org>]

Here is what I do when I have a bunch of RPMs to install:


cd /dir/where/the/RPMS
for file in `ls` ;do
rpm -Uhv $file ; echo $file ; echo "------"; done


And then I run it several times, until I get all the RPMs installed.

It is a brute force approach, but I don't have to worry about checking which
ones are installed or not.


On 25-Nov-99 Bruce W. Bigby wrote:
> Much thanks for the tip, Telsa! I did have RPM's that were not upgraded.
> Just like you, I moved the RPM's that were already upgraded to a
> separate directory and kept trying
> 
> rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> 
> until rpm had successfully upgraded all of the packages. By the way, my
> sound works but my GNOME sound events do not work. Sean Murphy said that
> an update to gnome-libs appeared--perhaps gnome-libs-1.0.54, or
> something, but I can't find it? I asked him for a pointer to the RPM but
> I don't think he's read his e-mail since I posted the request for the
> updated RPM.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Telsa Gwynne wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:33:03PM -0600 or thereabouts, Maher Awamy wrote:
>> > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Bruce W. Bigby wrote:
>> > >
>> > > By the way, after I download the latest GNOME (1.0.53), is upgrading as
>> > > simple as
>> > >
>> > > rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>> >
>> > Yes, if you have all the requirments, RPM will sort out all the
>> > depandancies
>> > and install in order. Unless there is a conflict, it'll let you know
>> 
>> One caveat: I have RH 6.1. And I got the October Gnome stuff. And I
>> ran rpm -U --test *.rpm (to see whether I had everything), and it
>> told me a bunch of the October Gnome stuff was already installed.
>> What I didn't realise at first was that that meant it wouldn't
>> upgrade the rest.
>> 
>> Rather than use force, I moved all that lot into a subdirectory and
>> tried again. That worked fine. A lot of them were development rpms,
>> but not all. The ones that were apparently up to date were these:
>> 
>> [hobbit@aloss ~/FTP/Rpms/Gnome/Dont]$ ls
>> audiofile-0.1.9-1.i386.rpm            imlib-1.9.7-1.i386.rpm
>> audiofile-devel-0.1.9-1.i386.rpm      imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.7-1.i386.rpm
>> extace-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm               imlib-devel-1.9.7-1.i386.rpm
>> gdm-2.0beta2-13.i386.rpm              libghttp-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
>> glade-0.5.3-1.i386.rpm                libghttp-devel-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
>> gnome-audio-1.0.0-7.noarch.rpm        libxml10-1.0.0-2.i386.rpm
>> gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-7.noarch.rpm  xchat-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm
>> gnome-users-guide-1.0.7-1.noarch.rpm  xscreensaver-3.17-4.i386.rpm
>> 
>> If you have a slow link, you might want to check the version numbers
>> of what you have and what you're about to download. If you already
>> have some of this, it will save time. I ran a script in the middle
>> of the night to download all of October Gnome, and it took five hours.
>> (Admitted, all the cron jobs probably kicked off in the middle of
>> that, and probably slowed it down even further.)
>> 
>> That, btw, is one reason why I'm glad there are so many smallish packages.
>> When something new comes out that I particularly want, I only need
>> to get that and anything it depends on, and not the whole lot again,
>> which is much more likely when you have a few gigantic packages.
>> 
>> And I do have a slow link. I don't think it takes everyone that long.
>> (I hate all of you with cable-modems and ADSL, I do! :))
>> 
>> Telsa, creeping along on the information superhighway's hard shoulder.
>> 
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