Re: I hate rpm as usual

[Net Llama!]

I think what's occuring here is that the time/date stamps on the installed RPM are newer than that of the version you're trying to install. I've seen this happen alot with Caldera's ancient RPMs. For non critical packages (such as abiword), its prolly best to just uninstall, then install the version you want.

On 11/16/2002 08:58 AM, Collins wrote:

OK, I'm trying to install the latest version of abiword on RH7.3 using
the redhat rpms supplied at the abiword site (mirrors).  rpm -Uvh
abiword-gtk-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm produces the following #!@% bit of
nonsense:

package abiword-0.99.5-2 (which is newer than abiword-1.0.3-1) is
already installed

This seems to be ridculous.  I presume by the numeric principles of
anything except chaos theory that 1.0.3-1 is really the newer package.
 Since there are no missing dependancies, I presume that I can just
use --force (or ??).  Or I could remove the older package.

Sigh, why can't RPM get anything right!

Thanks,

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