RE: General RPM question

[Charles E Taylor IV <charlet hubcap clemson edu>]

On 19-Dec-99 Michael Rich wrote:

> and it basically told me that there were dependencies on another package, so
> I couldn't upgrade.  When I downloaded and tried to upgrade that other, it
> basically told me it was dependant on that original one I was trying to
> upgrade (circular references it appears).

Sounds like you had gtk-devel and gtk installed and tried to only upgrade gtk. 
If that's the case, you can simply download and upgrade both packages at the
same time - something like this:

rpm -Uvh gtk-blahblah.alpha.rpm gtk-devel-blahblah.alpha.rpm

In fact, you can use windcards and install a directory full of updates with one
command this way.

If you've downloaded an entire directory of updates, say redhat's errata, the
preferred way is:

rpm -Fvh *.rpm

... while you're in the directory containing the updated packages.

Using the F will only update the packages you have installed on your system,
and will ignore the stuff you don't have.  Say redhat errata contains an ftp
server update and you don't have an ftp server installed - then this package
will be ignored.

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Date: 19-Dec-99
Time: 14:53:24
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