Stuart Hall wrote:
Can you explain the difference between
rpm -i
and using Yast to install the rpm? Or are we saying here that rpm -i, or rpm -U doesn't work?
My experience is that YaST will use the '--force' or '--nodeps' option when it calls rpm internally. In the past, it went right ahead and installed RPMs that I couldn't install manually using plain 'rpm -i' or 'rpm -U'. I'm not sure if it still does it, though. The advantage of using YaST is that it will call the SuSEconfig script after installing the packages. If you use rpm from the command line, you have to execute SuSEconfig also. In any case, I mostly install update RPMs from SuSE, I don't install RPMs from othe places. Those are mostly built for redhat systems or done incompetently, and they may screw your installation. -- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/