Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Graham Smith <gqs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 19 November 2005 23:28, James Knott wrote:
> Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> > Saturday 19 Nov 2005 06:33 samaye James Knott alekhiit:
> >> You can use a command, such as yast -i *.rpm, to install all the
> >> packages in one go.  Just open a root command prompt in the directory
> >> containing the OO RPMs, issue the command and wait a few minutes.
> >
> > Nice. So far I was following the more difficult way of adding the
> > directory with the RPMs as an installation source then goto Software
> > Management and update.
> >
> > Does yast -i do upgrades too? (I can't try 'cause I've already
> > upgraded...)
>
> I don't know,  the command help doesn't mention upgrades.

If you are talking about the downloaded file from http://www.openoffice.org

 What I use to do was uninstall all the OOo RPMS using Yast then in a shell 
navigate to where the RPMS have been extracted and do a rpm -Uvh *.rpm 

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Regards,

Graham Smith