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[Kevin Wilson <Kevin.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would using the RPM program with the -U option update the already installed
program even if the new one has a different directory structure?


-----Original Message-----
From: Togan Muftuoglu [mailto:toganm@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 10:33 AM
To: SuSE Ezine (General) (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [SLE] ? : updating installed packages


* Kevin Wilson; <Kevin.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxx> on 06 Jan, 2003 wrote:
>After installing SAPDB, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache or any other program from the
>distribution CDs using YaST how would I go about using RPM or YaST to
update
>those (installed) programs to their latest versions if the updates are not
>on the SuSE update servers? 

the quick and dirty way is 

yast2 -i whatever_you_want_to_install.rpm

This way the rpm database is updated and you have used YaST2 to install
packages 

The downside is if the file you have downloaded has a diffrent directory
structure then SuSE you will have headaches. I prefer to download either
the patches or the new source and using SuSE's spec file fo the previous
version ( ofcourse after editing to reflect the changes using the
package *build* create the new rpm and then  install this prevents
directory structure headaches. YMMV



-- 

Togan Muftuoglu
Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer
http://dinamizm.ath.cx



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