Acrobat Reader

[Paul Almquist]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 13:22, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:58:15 -0600, Paul Almquist <paul at almquist.name> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:46, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> > > I wonder... I have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, although I don't
> > > remember from which repo I got it. Using the link cited, will it
> > > overwrite the current version here, or will I end up with two
> > > acroreads installed?
> > >
> > > >rpm -q acroread
> > >
> > > acroread-5.0.10-1.1.fc3.rf
> > >
> > > >where acroread
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/acroread
> >
> > I installed v7 last night.  Here is what I got:
> > # ll /usr/bin/acroread
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 40 Mar 15 01:11 /usr/bin/acroread
> > -> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread
> >
> > If you want to keep the old version you could rename /usr/bin/acroread
> > before installing v7.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Almquist
> > paul at almquist.name
> > Eau Claire, WI  USA
>
> This is what happens whn I try to install it:
> # rpm -ivh AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%] file /usr/bin/acroread from install of AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1
> conflicts with file from package acroread-5.0.10-1.1.fc3.rf
>
> and it stops there. Am I doing something wrong here?
>
Oops, I forgot.  rpm checks the rpm database for conflicts, not the file 
system.   there is an option to override such checks, --force  if I remember 
correctly--I'll check the man page.  --force should work or use 
--replacefiles  which is one of 3 things that --force includes.

See the man page for all the gory details.  Lots of options.
Try again using:
rpm -ivh --force AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm

or you could remove your old version first.

-- 
Paul Almquist
paul at almquist.name
Eau Claire, WI  USA