On 9/15/21 1:06 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2021-09-14 18:53, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
I forget what the difference is between Uvh and ivh, and I'm too lazy to go look it up!
Just a guess i means install U means update Now i look at the RTFM ...
NSTALLING, UPGRADING, AND REMOVING PACKAGES: rpm {-i|--install} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ... rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ... rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ... rpm {-e|--erase} [--allmatches] [--justdb] [--nodeps] [--noscripts] [--notriggers] [--test] PACKAGE_NAME ...
Seems pretty intuitive to me. Perhaps the authors weren't idiots.
Want to bet that 'v' means 'verbose' Experience tells me that 'h' is for hash marks OK, thanks. I've always used -Uvh to install and it has always worked. I was taught that by some long-ago maven. and your second example shows that -Uvh works fine as an installer. --dm