Installing multiple rpm's at once?

[Brian J. Conway]

> 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
> gives:
> 
> [root at localhost src]# rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         glibc < 2.2.4 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.4-19.3
>         glibc-common = 2.2.2-10 is needed by glibc-2.2.2-10
> 
> 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:
> -- rpm wouldn't let me uninstall the previous 3, b/c so much stuff
depends> on glibc
> -- My system would be completely screwed if I were able to uninstall the
> earlier 3.

How about 'rpm -Uvh glibc*2.2.4*'?

Brian J. Conway
bconway at wpi.edu

"LINUX is obsolete"
     - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992