Re: installing rpms

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

Paul Warren wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Kent Perrier wrote:
> 
> > Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > >
> > > Just to simplify things for you, seeing as how your question didn't need the > complexity of a man page NOR the cost of a book,
> > >
> > > rpm -I whatever.rpm
> >
> > ok
> >
> > >
> > > will install "whatever.rpm"
> > >
> > > rpm -U whatever.rpm
> > >
> > > will upgrade whatever.rpm
> 
> and, to continue a thread which has remarkably little to do with Gnome,
> make those -Uvh and -Ivh, and you'll get a pretty status display...
> 
> > Not completely correct.  It will also install the rpm if it is not currently
> > installed.  To make sure they you are upgrading an rpm that you have installed
> > (but not installing it if you do not) use the -F option (freshen).  There was
> > post on BUGTRAQ about this.
> 
> Does that actually work these days?  The times I have tried to use -F I
> have found it broken beyond belief.  3 lines of shell script came to the
> rescue though...

It works for me, but who knows for you.  If you have trouble, check out
the RPM list hosted by redhat.  The guys who are developing RPM read
that all the time, and do a pretty good job with answering questions. 
BTW, what version of RPM are you using?
	Greg