Re: General RPM question

[michael area54 net]

Do them both together 
rpm -U 1st.rpm 2nd.rpm



On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Michael Rich wrote:

> I have a sort of general RPM question that I was wondering about.
> 
> What is usually the best method to do updates per say?  For instance, the
> other day I was compiling FreeAMP, and it said I needed a newer version of
> GTK, so I slid on over to RH website and pulled down a an updated RPM pack.
> I then proceeded to try to install them with a command like:
> 
> rpm -U XXXXXX.rpm (don't remember the file name)
> 
> 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).
> 
> Now what is the sort of accepted way to do updates like this?  I ended up
> finding a switch to ignore dependencies, but that crap could come back to
> haunt me one of these days since they are usually there to keep me from
> doing something stupid.
> 
> Any suggestions/tips that could help an aspiring (hehe) Linux newbie?
>