On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:49, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > Will there be the "-U" rpm equivalent feature in yum ? This is where > you issue an "update" but if its not install yum will install it > instead of updating. Perhaps this could be implemented as a different > keyword? no. I've always thought that was a backward concept of 'update'. If a package is not installed then you can't update it. An update is when you apply a newer package over an older one. The first time I ran rpm -Uvh *.rpm and it installed ALL of them instead of just updating the ones I had installed I was appalled and surprised. -sv