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fc5 install trouble

Subject: fc5 install trouble
From: me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:08:20 -0400
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References: <4430146F.108@stephenadler.com> <44311A58.8030404@redhat.com> <1144069552.18813.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 08:51 -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
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>> The problem with doing an rpm -Uvh * in a situation like this is that rpm refuses to install any
>> packages matched by a glob if one or more of them produces an error and unfortuately rpm treats
>> "this package is already installed" as an error. 
> 
> Would something like "rpm -Fvh *" work any better?

No, that would only update packages that were already installed:
 -i means install only
 -F means upgrade only
 -U means upgrade if it is already installed, otherwise install

Matt

References:
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  - From: adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)
- fc5 install trouble
  - From: brads at redhat.com (Brad Smith)
- fc5 install trouble
  - From: colet at code-energy.com (Cole Tuininga)

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