[huskerlug] Re: Up2date updates

>  rpm -Uvh up2date-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         up2date = 3.1.23 is needed by (installed) up2date-gnome-3.1.23-1

It's just telling you that up2date-gnome is indeed installed, and that it 
requires the current verision of the up2date package that you have installed 
in order to work.

> I then tried rpm -i instead of the whole -Uvh but that just generates
> more errors.  

Yes, since it's already installed it probably complained about a lot of 
conflicting files.

> I hope that adidn't make things worse for myself.  

Nope, it should have failed to install unless you forced it to install.  Just 
for future reference, I would recommend always trying your RPM operations 
with the "--test" option first, just to see what error message may crop up.    

> I have both the files downloaded so how do I tell  the one package where
> its brother is?
> Or if I am going about this all wrong, what should I do?

You're on the right track.  Just specify both packages on the command line to 
rpm:

rpm -Uvh up2date-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm up2date-gnome.3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm --test

If that doesn't give you any complaints, remove the "--test" and do it for 
real.

Another way to update packages using RPM (especially if there are a lot of 
them to update), is to put them all in a directory by themselves, change to 
that directory, and type:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

It saves on the typing ;-)

One thing to remember about "-U" is that it really means "upgrade package, or 
install it if it doesn't exist".  The "-F" option is what I would consider 
the real upgrade option.  It will only try to upgrade packages that are 
already installed.

Why is this useful?  RPM is ftp/http aware.  You can do:

rpm -Fvh ftp://some.redhat.mirror.site/<redhat version>/en/os/i386/*.rpm

There was a problem with using wild cards in one of the RPM versions, and I 
don't know if it was ever fixed.  Maybe they disabled this feature 
intentionally so you couldn't use it instead of RHN ;-)

Hope this helps!
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