-ivh and -Uvh

[Gayal]

wut does v and h stands for ??

On 8/30/06, ne... <guhvies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/29/06, Gayal <gayal.rupasinghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wuts the different between rpm -ivh and rpm -Uvh?
> Say you have package foobar-1.1 installed.
> rpm -ivh foobar-2.1.rpm will install foobar-2.1 alongside
> foobar-1.1. So if you do rpm -q foobar, the results will be
>
> foobar-1.1
> foobar-2.1
>
> OTOH (On The Other Hand) if you did a rpm -Uvh instead,
> foobar-2.1 will replace foobar-1.1. So rpm -q will list only
> foobar-2.1.
>
> HTH
> ne...
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