On Friday 19 January 2001 19:16, andre wrote:
> I think you mean a packages update and not an install but.. . But don't you
> see it when an install goes wrong. If you use rpm -Fvh or Mandrakeupdate
> from the command-line you see an error-messages. And to get ride of
> multipules just do an rpm -e --noscripts
> packages-name-with-the-old-complete-name-without-the-rpm-bit
>
> Say if you have package-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> and package-1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> installed
> do rpm -e --noscripts package-1-1mdk
NO!!! I'm pretty sure you'll seriously shoot yourself in the foot doing
this. rpm has no concept of which VERSION of the package you're
uninstalling, and doesn't know that two packages have the same file. It's
quite likely that you'll remove a file that -2 wants if it was common with -1.
I did that once with rpm. Not a pretty sight...
.../Ed
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