FC5 & OpenOffice.org

Peter Hillier-Brook phb at hbsys.plus.com
Tue Jun 6 19:50:06 UTC 2006


Paul Dickson wrote:
> 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.

Querying works fine, it's the installation that bombs. I've had a 
thought that the wildcarded filename should be terminated with ".rpm" 
and next time I boot FC I'll check that.

Thanks for all your help.

Peter HB




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