Installing rpms

Rodney K pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Oct 26 01:12:04 PDT 2001


ah cool! forcing it worked....so far everything seems okay.

Thanks!
Rodney

On Thursday 25 October 2001 07:07 pm, you wrote:
> It sounds like it might be comparing dates rather than versions or
> something funny like that.  I wish I had a linux machine to tell you, but
> I'm pretty sure there's a "force" option.  It might be -f, or --force.  Try
> rpm --help. But I've seen similar rpm problems such as this, and I'll tell
> you that mixing and matching RPMS sometimes causes problems.  For instance,
> gnome and helix gnome had very different RPMS for a while, and you had to
> be very careful of which one you used.  So it could be a much more
> complicated issue than I could perceive.  But since XML isn't too critical
> for the operation of your system, I'd try rpm -Uvh --force, or the
> equivalent, and see if it likes that.  Either that or rpm -e old ver; rpm
> -Ivh new ver.
> -Eric Hattemer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rodney K" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 7:10 PM
> Subject: [luau] Installing rpms
>
> > HI,
> >
> > Can someone please tell me what's going on here...I switched over from
> > Mandrake 8.1 to Redhat 7.1 and I am trying to update the libxml packages,
>
> but
>
> > rpm tells me the following:
> >
> > [root at a24b161n130client181 happy]# rpm -Uvh libxml*.rpm
> > Preparing...                ###########################################
>
> [100%]
>
> > package libxml-1.8.10-1 (which is newer than libxml-1.8.16-1) is already
> > installed
> > package libxml-devel-1.8.10-1 (which is newer than libxml-devel-1.8.16-1)
>
> is
>
> > already installed
> > [root at a24b161n130client181 happy]#
> >
> > Rodney
> >
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