On 12/16/2011 09:34 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 17.12.2011 00:17, schrieb Erik P. Olsen:
On 16/12/11 23:54, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 16.12.2011 23:50, schrieb Erik P. Olsen:
I have installed VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.14_74382_fedora14-1.x86_64 and have been running it for quite some time. I have
now noticed that a new version VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74713_fedora14-1.x86_64 is available but not as an update only
as a new install. Is it safe to remove the current package and install the new one? Will my virtual machines be
automatically picked up by the installation process?
this is linux not windows
rpm -Uvh "package.rpm" or better "yum --nogpgcheck update package.rpm"
to update downloaded packages
My question had nothing to do with windows. I have never run windows except as virtual machines. and "yum update
VirtualBox*" gets "No Packages marked for Update" so a clean install is needed.
* download the rpm
* go in the folder with the rpm
* type "yum --nogpgcheck update filename.rpm"
yum is not limited to repos
if something is installed as rpm a "clean install" is not needed
why? because for a rpm a "clean install" does not exist
a rpm-package knows which files are form the apckages, which are
new and which are obsoleted to remove, that is why a package-manager
exists
your user-data has nothing to do with the rpm/software/package
a virtual machine for vbox/vmware whatever is the same as a doc for openoffice
it is yur data and has nothing to do with install/update/uninstall the software
It has to be a "clean install" from my point of view, because he has to
remove one package and then install the other. Why? Because the newer
one has a different name. In the format of name-version-release.arch,
this is:
Old package: VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.14_74382_fedora14-1.x86_64
New package: VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74713_fedora14-1.x86_64
so the old one is called VirtualBox-4.0 and the newer is VirtualBox-4.1.
(BTW, Erik, take into account that F14 is EOL. We are in F16, and the
same versio of VirtualBox is available).
HTH,
Germán.
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Fedora Package Maintainer
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