All I want for Christmas is digiKam 1.0 in F12-stable...

[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:18 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As for installation, doing a straight rpm -i over the -beta6 install
> > resulted in a slew of error messages regarding file conflicts.  I did a
> > yum remove digikam and then an rpm -i and everything worked fine.
> 
> That's to be expected, as "rpm -i" installs a package without removing
> the old one.  Unless the package is specially designed (like the
> kernel) you'll get conflicts.  Normally, you'd want to use "rpm -U"
> which will remove the old package before installing the new one.

DOH, what the heck was I thinking ?  I KNEW that.  Sheesh !  :smacks
forehead with open hand:

I was thinking it was an install because I had downloaded the rpms.  I
don't usually have to download rpms to do updates because I just use
yum.

Thanks for the reply.