Helo geeko's ;) The "freshen" option does not seem to work or am I doing something very wrong? # rpm --version RPM version 3.0.3 # man rpm ... Maintaining installed packages: ... rpm [--freshen|-F] [installoptions] [package_file]+ # rpm -Fvh scanlogd-1.3-61.i386.rpm rpm: --hash (-h) may only be specified during package installation # rpm -F scanlogd-1.3-61.i386.rpm RPM version 3.0.3 Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License usage: rpm {--help} .... listing of all options (NOT mentioning -F !!) .... --- What is the most recent RPM version and does it support the -F flag? Imho this is a very handy flag, eg., for a poor-mans update: # cd /path/to/where-i-downloaded-specific-updated-suse63-rpms # for f in `find . -name '*.rpm' -print | grep -v '/zq1/'`; do rpm -Fvh $f echo -n " Done, press enter to continue: "; read a done because rpm -Fvh works like rpm -Uvh, but only installs a newer package if a previous version was installed (and thus not corrupting your carefully crafted list of installed packages when installing SuSE initially :-) Thanx for any help or suggestions, Eric Maryniak -- Eric Maryniak Home page: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology. Tel/Fax: +31 20 5256853/6391656. Internet: http://www.neuromod.org/ The best way to accelerate Windows is at 9.8 m/s^2. -- 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/