Difference between rpm -i and rpm -U ?

[Dan]

Dan Thurman wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:27 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
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>> Dan Thurman wrote:
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>>> What is the difference between rpm -i and rpm -U ?
>>>
>>> If I have a bunch of rpm files and use -i, will it remove
>>> previous versions of packages or will it retain older packages
>>> and install the newer package on top?
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>> It will install the package in addition to the old one.  This is
>> what's done with kernels, for example.
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>>> I assume -U looks for older packages, removes it if found,
>>> and then installs the newer package?
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>> Correct.  If there was no old package, it will just go ahead and
>> install the new package.
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> Bummer.  What do I do if I already went ahead and used the -i
> option- now what do I have to do to remove the bloat?
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>> There's also the --freshen (-F) option.  That works like --upgrade,
>> but it will only install packages that have another version already
>> installed.
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>>> I just want to make sure that I do no end up with filesystem
>>> bloat choosing the wrong arguments.
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>> I've gotten to know rpm well over the years (as I am sure many here
>> have), but with the exception of packages I've built here that I wish
>> to test before adding them to my local yum repo, I prefer to use yum
>> for package management.
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rpm -e it, using the entire version number of the one you want to 
uninstall. If that doesn't work, and there aren't dependency issues, you 
can rpm -e --allmatches the package name, and then reinstall the one you 
want.
-Dan