[Gllug] Installing Stuff?

[Andrew Richardson]

On Sunday 09 December 2001 18:52, Vincent wrote:

> > Any ideas would be helpful ... I have 32 RPM files waiting in a directory
> > called "KDE 2.2.1" and I have little idea what to do with them?
>
> In the directory:
> # rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
> Or, if you have some kind of GUI program for installing packages, you'll
> just need to configure it to look in the directory for updated packages.

rpm -Fvh *.rpm  
as this has the advantage that it will not try to upgrade packages that 
aren't there in the first place.  Very useful for large batch upgrades such 
as KDE.

Cheers

Andrew

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