Author: Erwin J. van Eijk
Email: eijk@huygens.org
Web Page: http://www.huygens.org
Date Submitted: Sat, Apr 18, 1998
Status: New Entry
Releases: | all |
Platform: | all |
Category: | RPM & RPM's |
Category Listing: | "UPGRADING PACKAGES" |
I noticed some new bugfix releases of packages I use regularly. But when I try to install them with rpm -ivh packagename-1.0-2.i386.rpm it refuses with package packagename-1.0-2 is already installed How can I install packagename-1.0-2?
First use rpm -qa | grep filename to detect whether a package has been installed on the system. If rpm -i filename...rpm does not work because there already exists a package of the name/type on the system, you can use rpm -i -U filename...rpm to upgrade the package.
This information was from some helpful people on the redhat mailing list.