On 01/24/2013 11:12 AM, Doug issued this missive:
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.)
I've used the *.rpm thing often in the past. Be warned, however, that the shell expands the "*" bit and passes a list of RPMs to rpm. You can hit some dependency order issues because of that. For example, it wants to update "widget-devel". That depends on having "widget" updated first, but "widget" appears in the expanded filelist AFTER "widget-devel" and the update fails. Just do rpm -Uvh widget.rpm widget-devel.rpm (i.e. specify the RPMs in the correcto order) separately first. You can then the "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" again. It'll whine that "widget" and "widget- devel" have already been updated, but you knew that. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Whoever said "Money can't buy friends" obviously never brought - - donuts to the office. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
