Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> On Tue Feb 06, 2001 at 03:32:30PM -0600, Altoine B. wrote:
>
> [...]
> > > > i can't seem to get the new packages to install or the old ones to
> > > > uninstall. what am i missing here? i don't have rpm package manager
> > > > installed on my servers (high security). prehaps that would help? what is
> > > > the name of the rpm to install for that?
> > >
> > > Don't do them one at a time. Do a "rpm -Fvh MySQL*" and you should be ok.
> >
> > I personally avoid "forcing my way" on anything. It only leads to
> > heartache and pain later on. Just remove all the old packages that I had
> > showed in my prior posting and you can then
> >
> > rpm -ivh MySQL*.rpm
> >
> > or how ever you do it. just use "i" now and you should be fine.
>
> Huh? -Fvh means to freshen.. install if it exists. If you already
> have MySQL installed and you do an -ivh, you will have two versions of
> everything installed (which is not what you want).
>
> Either use -F (freshen) or -U (upgrade). --force is to force the
> install, not -F.
>
I meant for him to use rpm -ivh after he had deleted the old packages.
Cheers,
-- Al
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