rpm -Ivh package.rpm to install
rpm -Uvh package.rpm to upgrade
Read the rpm-howto.
My suggestion would be to install a 'full' kernel and NOT use the ones
provided by redhat. Read the kernel-howto and the lilo-howto.
Dan
At 10:53 PM 4/8/98 -0300, Marco Shaw wrote:
>***Please don't get upset because I sent this message to two different
>lists****
>
>An 'rpm -q rpm' gives me: 'rpm-2.4.10-1glibc'. When new rpms are
>released, do I have to update this version of rpm before installing new
>RPMs?
>I installed RH5 recently, and am having a hell of a time upgrading some
>packages. I can't upgrade my kernel (from 2.0.31 to 2.0.32) and the ld.so
>packages, for
>example, according to the errata for Intel/5.0.
>
>When I try to show the packages that are available, only a few showed up.
>These were upgrades to packages that I already had. If I try to
>install/upgrade them, I just get:
>
>error: cannot install rpm...
>
>I've tried --force, and other things, but they don't want to go in.
>
>I can't figure it out...Am I missing something?
>
>Marco
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