FC5 & OpenOffice.org
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 6 20:55:44 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 16:21 -0400, CodeHeads wrote:
> 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.
Only if there are any non-rpm files in the directory. Otherwise, a glob
of "*" should work just fine.
Paul.
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