[huskerlug] Re: Up2date updates

Sweet,

Putting both on the command line worked beautifully, I got up2date 
updated and then updated the rest of the box.

Thanks for the help,
Martin

Steve wrote:

>> 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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