On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:16 -0600, Rod Engelsman wrote:
> Group,
> New (naive) Linux user with a question. I downloaded the tarball for
> m69, unrolled it, and now I have 14 rpms. I know how to install an rpm
> but I wasn't expecting 14 of them! It's not obvious to me how to
> proceed. Does the order I install them make a difference? And I realize
> that I can ignore the one for SUSE menues (so that makes 13, I'm running
> FC3 so I'll use the fedora menues I guess).
>
I do the following:
1. rpm -e `cat list of old rpms`
2. rm -rf /opt/openoffice.org1.9m<old version>
3. rm -rf $HOME/.openoffice1.9m<old version>
4. cd directoyy with new 1.9 rpms
5. rpm -Uv *rpm
The install sets do not replace old stuff so you have to get rid of it
manually; hence, steps 1-3.
> TIA
>
> Rod
>
> ps. Accidentally cross-posted to dba.users. Ignore it there.
>
Tsk, tsk :-?
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