Acrobat Reader

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:48 -0600, Paul Almquist wrote:
> 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.

This is the thing to do. You are replacing the package "acroread" with
an entirely different package called "AdobeReader_enu". The latter does
not have an "Obsoletes: acroread" tag in its spec file and therefore
does not cause the original acroread package to be upgraded. So you need
to get rid of acroread yourself first.

Never, ever use --force unless you know *exactly* what you are doing. It
would be the wrong thing to do in this case as it would leave a
partially-overwritten package on your system.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>