Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 02.35, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 7:57 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > > Second method: rpm -Fvh
> > > > http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/SuSE/ix86/9.0/*.rpm
> > >
> > > I tried that and got:
> > >
> > > suillus:/home/pwa # rpm -Fvh http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/
>
> SuSE/
>
> > > ix86/9.0/*.rpm
> > > error: File not found by glob:
> > > http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/SuSE/ ix86/9.0/*.rpm
> >
> > OK, yeah, the path would have to be to the exact location of the rpms, I
>
> guess
>
> > that would be something like .../9.0/base/*.rpm or .../9.0/applications/
>
> *.rpm
>
> The 9.0 directory doesn't have any subdirectories, only rpms.  Specifying
> just that directory without the "*.rpm" doesn't work either.  Any ideas on
> how to get around that?

Oh, I'm sorry, I just realised that the url is a http. http doesn't support 
wildcards. Try ftp instead