FC5 & OpenOffice.org

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On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:50:06 +0100 Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com>
wrote:

> 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


I have done the following and it has worked:
$ rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Must be in the same directory as the rpms :)

Yes, you are right, it has to have the .rpm at the end.

Hope that helps.

Will
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