On Tue 11 Sep at 15:36:54 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said:
> I'm trying to apply the latest security patches to a LM 8.0 system that
> doesn't have X installed. I can't use MandrakeUpdate, and rpm -Uvh won't
> let me upgrade glibc and glibc-devel because of dependencies. I've tried
> using --force but that doen't help. How can I apply these updates?
Hi Dan,
I'd just download them locally and run 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' against them
(but note to keep the kernel RPMs out of there).
HTH,
-Charlie
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