Marko Vojinovic, It should be the way you say. Em 16-12-2011 22:48, Marko Vojinovic escreveu: > On Friday 16 December 2011 23:54:10 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? > Yes, it is safe. Your virtual machines will be picked up by the new version if > you haven't moved their configuration files from the default location. Be careful..... see my others E-mail on this subject. > >> this is linux not windows >> rpm -Uvh "package.rpm" or better "yum --nogpgcheck update package.rpm" >> to update downloaded packages > The "VirtualBox-4.1-<version>" package is not an updated version of the > "VirtualBox-4.0-<version>", but rather a different package. Note that the "4.1" > amd "4.0" are a part of the *basename*, rather than a version number of the > package. > > IOW, you can have VirtualBox-4.1 and VirtualBox-4.0 installed simultaneously > (which may be a bad idea, but that's beside my point). The 4.0 *does* *not* > get upgraded to 4.1 via a regular yum update or a rpm -Uvh. > > As far as VirtualBox is concerned, this situation is exactly the same in both > Linux and Windows. > > HTH, :-) > Marko > > > > -- Lucélio Gomes de Freitas ETFCSF-> U.G.F.-> P.U.C.(RJ) Engº, Analista Suporte(Free Mind). Email: aa.lucelio@xxxxxxxxx Tel: 55 0XX 21 85964911 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
