On 01/24/2013 12:26 PM, Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
Expansion of the asterisk is handled by the shell. To see what such a command
will do, issue the command
echo *.rpm
You will see the full list of RPMs.
I thank all of you folks who have answered. It turns out that the code
I suggested--
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
--works fine. I looked in your fine book on RPM, but could not find it
in there. since it is a draft, albeit about 2 years old now, perhaps the
authors will add this command to the text.
I posted here because of the wide use of RPMs in Fedora, altho I an
using PCLOS, and cannot use YUM! (PCLOS uses RPMs, but except
for out-of-repo installs, they are all handled by Synaptic. It's only
the programs that are not in the repo that require the command
line operation.)
--doug
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