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
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