Installing multiple rpm's at once?

[mbrodeur at NextTime.com (Matthew J. Brodeur)]

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Ken Gosier wrote:

> However, if I try to install any one of them, it reports that I already
> have to have one of the others. For instance, trying glibc-common
> 
> Similarly for the other two. Question: How do I get the newer rpm's
> installed? The obvious thing to do would be to uninstall all 3 earlier
> rpm's, then install the new 3. But, my guess is:


On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Brian J. Conway wrote:
> How about 'rpm -Uvh glibc*2.2.4*'?

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
> Use the --nodeps option to force in the first one in the chain 

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Ken Gosier wrote:
> Many thanks, I now have glibc-2.2.4 going.


   For future reference, I feel (and I'm pretty sure Red Hat agrees) that 
the method Brian suggested is "The Right Way."  The rpm utility will 
accept a list of packages to be installed and resolve dependencies among 
them.  It might be a little over-cautious, but I prefer to use as few of 
the override flags as possible with rpm.
   That being said, I don't think there was much of a difference in this 
case.  The only time it would really become a problem is if you forced in 
a conflicting package that broke rpm.


- -- 
     -Matt

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