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dids wrote:
On Sunday 05 May 2002 02:48, Robert Paulsen wrote:
One of my favorite things about YaST1 was the way it could be pointed at a directory full of rpm files and it would tell you which were already installed and if the versions in the directory were the same or different from those already installed.
I can't see how to use YaST2 to do the same thing, but perhaps there is another "rpm manager" tool or front-end that will allow me to do this.
Any suggestions?
Supposing you have a large collection of RPM files in a directory, the simplest solution to update only the installaed packages is: open a terminal, change to the directory where RPMs are, and ... rpm -Fvh *.rpm see the man page of rpm for an explanation of the -F (freshen) option. If you run into dependencies problems use --nodeps option or try to resolve them yourself. Yast1 did not check dependencies, so we are in no worse shape. -- Rafael