Re: manual order of rpms to install/upgrade ?

[Jan Carlson <janc iname com>]

Charles Galpin wrote:

> The easiest way to do it is to let rpm figure out the order. Stick all the
> rpms in a dir and do a
>
> rpm -iVh *.rpm

Better to use -U, not -i.
The one common use for -i is for a new "kernel" rpm.

-U deinstalls the old version (if it exists) then installs the new.
If there is no installed old version, it does what you want - just installs.

-i tries to install the new version while the old version is still there,

failing almost every time because of conflicting files.

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Jan Carlson
janc iname com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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