Installing RPM s

[Timothy Payne]

This is handy to bookmark
http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap3sec20.html

On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:20, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Monday, July 26, 2004 12:59 PM +1000 Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Pop up a terminal, su to root and then cd to the directory with the rpm
> > in it. Then:
> >
> > 	rpm -ivh foo.rpm
> 
> No!!!!
> 
> The -i (install) switch is only appropriate for kernels. For all other 
> packages, use -U (update). It will also install if the package isn't 
> present, but it will remove any old versions if they are. (This isn't 
> appropriate for kernels, as you don't want to uninstall the old one until 
> you've tested the new one. Then you use -e (erase) to remove the old one.)
> 
>