-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:35:33 +0300, Panos Tsapralis wrote:
> OK, since I am on a slow dial-up connection at home, I got some help from a > friend of mine, who's working for a major ISP here in Athens and made me a favor > of collecting the latest XFREE86 updates on a CD. > > Now, I wonder what is the proper command to install these updates, since I > observed that there are rather complex dependencies between the packages. > > So, I suppose that the correct command would be: > > rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm > > while being into the directory, where the updates are stored. > > Am I correct or what? No. Option --nodeps is dangerous because it ignores any dependencies which is not what you want. Use rpm -Fvh *.rpm which is short-form for rpm --freshen --verbose --hash and updates only those packages which you have installed already. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Ad6f0iMVcrivHFQRAkdZAJoCqHy2xrl3WX/b9f/lOodENsLJSwCggTBV dV6RERddHG16/LS7lVTiN/c= =xMJt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
