[huskerlug] Re: Up2date updates

I use red carpet from Ximian.  It works very well and helps you install
new packages, as well as update installed packages.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Wolff [mailto:mrwolff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:54 PM
To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [huskerlug] Re: Up2date updates


Sweet,

Putting both on the command line worked beautifully, I got up2date=20
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 =3D 3.1.23 is needed by (installed)=20
>>up2date-gnome-3.1.23-1
>>   =20
>>
>
>It's just telling you that up2date-gnome is indeed installed, and that=20
>it
>requires the current verision of the up2date package that you have
installed=20
>in order to work.
>
> =20
>
>>I then tried rpm -i instead of the whole -Uvh but that just generates=20
>>more errors.
>>   =20
>>
>
>Yes, since it's already installed it probably complained about a lot of
>conflicting files.
>
> =20
>
>>I hope that adidn't make things worse for myself.
>>   =20
>>
>
>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=20
>with the "--test" option first, just to see what error message may crop
up.   =20
>
> =20
>
>>I have both the files downloaded so how do I tell  the one package=20
>>where its brother is? Or if I am going about this all wrong, what=20
>>should I do?
>>   =20
>>
>
>You're on the right track.  Just specify both packages on the command=20
>line to
>rpm:
>
>rpm -Uvh up2date-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm up2date-gnome.3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm=20
>--test
>
>If that doesn't give you any complaints, remove the "--test" and do it=20
>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=20
>that directory, and type:
>
>rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
>It saves on the typing ;-)
>
>One thing to remember about "-U" is that it really means "upgrade=20
>package, or
>install it if it doesn't exist".  The "-F" option is what I would
consider=20
>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=20
>version>/en/os/i386/*.rpm
>
>There was a problem with using wild cards in one of the RPM versions,=20
>and I
>don't know if it was ever fixed.  Maybe they disabled this feature=20
>intentionally so you couldn't use it instead of RHN ;-)
>
>Hope this helps!
> =20
>



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