RPM

[Jeremy Hogan]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 18:22, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> I have had such a problem getting up2date to work I've downloaded the update
> directory from a mirror onto my local machine. What rpm options do I use to
> upgrade the packages? Better ask before I screw something up.
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> Any help will be greatly appreicated.

Not the recommended way of doing things, but hey, caveat emptor.

rpm -Uvh *.rpm 

Will attempt to upgrade anything installed, or install it if it isn't
already.

rpm -Fvh *.rpm 

Will upgrade just the installed packages and ignore the others.

You may get weird dependency errors with either.

--jeremy

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