rpm -Fvh will upgrade only the packages you already have installed. It's very useful for just jumping in the updates directory and upgrading all relevent packages. <p>Byron Como wrote: <em>>You might need to upgrade your rpm to ver 4.x. Along the way you will need <em>>to upgrade the popt, db3, and tcl rpms to make the rpm upgrade work. I've <em>>found that donwloading the entire contents of the 6.2 upgrade library to <em>>your hard drive, the running rpm -uvh * works pretty well. It reads the <em>>packages on your system and upgrades them with the new files. You may have <em>>to pause to upgrade dependencies for a couple of packages but once it gets <em>>going it upgrades all the files automatically. <em>>----- Original Message ----- <em>>From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>>To: "BRLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>>Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:48 PM <em>>Subject: [brluglist] RPM command.. <em>> <em>> <em>>>I am trying to upgrade an RPM using the rpm command on a RH6.2 system. <em>>>We are still using rpm-3.0.4-0.48. The RPM is from Red Hat's website, <em>>>and labeled as a RH6.2 download. When I try to install the RPM I get the <em>>>following: <em>>> <em>>># rpm -Uhv xntp3-5.93-15.i386.rpm <em>>>error: failed dependencies: <em>>> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by <em>>> <em>>xntp3-5.93-15 <em>> <em>>>What is this? I didn't see any mention of it in the manpages, and <em>>>frankly haven't seen it before. Any ideas? I would like to apply this <em>>>RPM soon, so any help is appreciated. <em>>> <em>>>Regards, Dustin <em>>> <em>>>-- <em>>>Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>>>http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear <em>>>In the beginning the Universe was created. <em>>>This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams <em>>> <em>>>================================================ <em>>>BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>>>Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>>>Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>>>your subscription information. <em>>>================================================ <em>>> <em>> <em>>================================================ <em>>BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>>Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>>Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>>your subscription information. <em>>================================================ <em>> <p>================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> Dustin Puryear: "Re: [brluglist] RPM command.." <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Tim Fournet: "Re: [brluglist] RPM command.." <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Byron Como: "Re: [brluglist] RPM command.." <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Tim Fournet: "Re: [brluglist] RPM command.." <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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