On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:58:44 -0500 "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated:
> Greetings: > > I'm starting out with a fresh 7.1 box. I wanted to apply all the > applicable updated rpms. I compared what was available in > ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/ with what I had installed as > shown with rpm -qa > > FIrst I just downloaded them and tried to install them in "ls" order. > That didn't seem to go well. So I started all over (fresh load again > from backup/restore). This time I tried them in the order of their > date, oldest installed first. I still got dependency problems. > > In particular I got dependency problems when I got to these: > > cpp-2.96-85.i386.rpm > gcc-2.96-85.i386.rpm > gcc-c++-2.96-85.i386.rpm > libstdc++-2.96-85.i386.rpm > libstdc++-devel-2.96-85.i386.rpm > > They seemed to depend on each other. > > My question is, what should I be doing to properly install all these > rpm updates? Is using "--nodep" acceptable? It makes me vervous as I > feel like I'm overriding a warning I should not override. > > Is there a particular order for these so I won't get dependency > problems and if there is, how do I get it? > > Thanks very much for the help, > Scott Put them all in a single directory and then there are two ways to do it. 1. rpm -Fvh * This will update only what you already have installed and ignore anything extra. The potential problem is that sometimes files get moved to another package. Sometimes they get moved into a package you don't already have installed. This may fail due to dependencies in this case. 2. rpm -Uvh * This will update/install everything in the directory. The downside is that it will install/upgrade everything in the directory, even if you don't already have them installed. Actually there's a third option: run rhn_register and register the machine (free). Then run up2date and let it handle things. Good for everyday use. But, if you need a lot of updates and you're on a dial-up, might be a problem with having them downloaded and taking a long time to do it. In that case, I'd settle for 1 or 2, then register and use up2date regularly. -- The more you complain the longer God lets you live. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
