RPM is confused

[Brian Cluff]

One more thing.
If you are trying to put a new version of an RPM on a system you will
want to use -U or --upgrade instead of install since upgrade will remove
the old version and put the new version on in it's place.  It will also
done some configuring sometimes if it needs to be done (but nothing like
is offered with debconf on debian :)

Upgrading is really the way you are going to want to go, since if you
try and remove a package that is needed by other packages you would have
to remove dozens of other packages as well, and then have to put them
all back on, where and upgrade will just let the system know that you
will be putting an equivelent package back in the old packages place and
it doesn't have to cry about missing dependencies.

Brian Cluff

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 09:41, Kyle Faber wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> 	It seems like I have had this problem in the past, but I don't think I have 
> ever solved it.  I am trying to install a library .rpm file.  
> 
> "rpm --install=<packagename>.rpm"
>  returns 
> *<specified> is already installed.*
> which then leads me to type ...
> "rpm --erase=<packagename>.rpm"
> which returns
> *<specified> is not installed on this system*
> 
> 	This wouldn't be all that big of a deal except that I recently fresh 
> installed RH8 on my main system, and I really need these libraries for Xine.  
> My Enterprise episode collection is going unwatched and they are lonely....  
> ;)
> 
> Rundown:
> RH 8.0 fresh install on Athlon
> very few (if any, I forget) non-RH supplied packages or tars installed yet 
> (getting xine working again is one of my first projects.)
> 
> 
> Thanks!!
> Kyle Faber
> 
> PS. I realize that apt-get will probably be suggested as a solution to this 
> problem.  Debian is installed on a different machine, the machine I can 
> break.  This machine is where I try to keep things stable (since I sometimes 
> think I know what I am doing when it comes to RH, not Debian)  so thanks 
> anyway  ; )
> 
> 
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