FC5 & OpenOffice.org

[Paul Dickson]

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:50:13 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 20:14 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >> rpm apparently won't accept wildcards for an install
> > 
> > I don't ever recall having such a problem.
> > 
> I believe you and my initial thoughts were that I was doing something 
> stupid, but I can't see what's wrong with:
> 
> rpm -i openoffice.org-*
> 
> from within the directory holding the packages and having 'su'd to root 
> first.

Try:
   rpm -qa "openoffice.org-*"
or:
   rpm -qa openoffice.org-\*

If you don't quote the asterisk, bash will attempt to expand it.

	-Paul