upgrading rpms...

[Chris W. Parker]

bruce <mailto:bedouglas at earthlink.net>
    on Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:36 PM said:

> hi....
> 
> relatively new to linux.. but i'm looking into the process of doing
> install/upgrades for some apps.. when i do the rpm -Uvh command, the
> system states that there are dependency issues..

install apt-get from http://freshrpms.net/apt/. then you can do stuff
like:

# apt-get install <package>

> i've reviewed some docs regarding "yum", but i can't even find the
> librpm rpm at the version the yum site specifies...

never used yum but apt is a similar system afaik.


hth,
chris.