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Norberto Quintanar yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:54:29 -0700 (PDT)


--- Matthias Saou 
> Actually, rpm -U or rpm -F would be better in this case.
> - U is "Upgrade" : Install if not already installed, or upgrade
> - F is "Freshen" : Only upgrade if already installed
> 
> As a thumb rule, -i almost never needs to be used, only to install
> another
> non-conflicting instance of the same package (very rare, think
> kernel
> modules mainly), -U should be used instead, and when it's for a
> bunch of
> files in a directory for which one only wants to upgrade the
> already
> installed ones, -F is the time saving answer.
> 
> Matthias

Good to know, I've used rpm -i since I first began using linux.  It's
what I learned back then and never bothered to change it.  It's good
to learn something new everyday.




		
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