Re: Installing updates downloaded from Red Hat Network.

["Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist voyager phys utk edu>]

On Tuesday 01 July 2003 02:35 pm, 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

rpm -Uvh *.rpm should do it. Don't use --nodeps unless you really know what 
you're doing, because it will ignore all dependancy problem. 

If rpm -Uvh gives you dependency error, than you need to resolve that. 
Otherwise, likely you'll break something (if you're forcing it using 
--nodeps).

RDB



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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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