Re: Installing updates downloaded from Red Hat Network.

[Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 arcor de>]

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:35:33 +0300, Panos Tsapralis wrote:

> OK, since I am on a slow dial-up connection at home, I got some help from a 
> friend of mine, who's working for a major ISP here in Athens and made me a favor 
> of collecting the latest XFREE86 updates on a CD.
> 
> Now, I wonder what is the proper command to install these updates, since I 
> observed that there are rather complex dependencies between the packages.
> 
> So, I suppose that the correct command would be:
> 
> rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm
> 
> while being into the directory, where the updates are stored.
> 
> Am I correct or what?

No. Option --nodeps is dangerous because it ignores any dependencies
which is not what you want. Use 

  rpm -Fvh *.rpm
  
which is short-form for

  rpm --freshen --verbose --hash
  
and updates only those packages which you have installed already.

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