RPM help please

[Kevin Brown]

rpm -U says upgrade this package or install it if I don't have it.  Unlike
apt-get it won't solve the other dependencies that your system might have on
that version of guile.  So you'll have to solve each dependency and add it to
the install line

rpm -Uvh package1 package2 package 3

or

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> Okay without saying "carl you should use apt-get" can someone help me
> with rpm? I'm trying to get gnucash installed its saying I need
> libguile.so.9 so I went to rpmfind and see that that's part of the
> guile-1.4 rpm. I did a rpm -q on guile and see that I have
> guile-1.3.4-16 installed so I do rpm -U guile-1.4<blahblahblah> and it
> comes back with a list of dependences that need guile-1.3 to run. It was
> my understanding that the -U switch was to Upgrade the package so that
> all the programs depending on the old packetage could still run. Up
> until this point the steps I've taken so far either worked or I just
> gave up and installed from source but I've decided now to really
> understand RPM any tricks I should try that I haven't? Any good
> "detailed" info on RPM? I'm looking for something with a bit more
> explanation than the man page.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carl P.
> 
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