On Saturday 02 August 2003 17:31, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:52 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 17:41, Curtis Rey wrote:
rpm -Uhv *.rpm
This will most likely fail because it will go in alphabetical order and certain packages will complain about unmet dependencies or their are given conflicts such as some files can't be removed, etc... Don't sweat it.
There are two flags you can use together, "--nodeps" and "--force".
So, most likely you'll have to issue:
rpm -Uhv *.rpm --nodeps --force
And this should work fine.
Please stop saying this. You are advising people to break their systems. --force will allow rpm to overwrite files owned by other packages, and --nodeps will ignore missing dependencies.
--nodeps may be useful if you know what you're doing, --force is never useful. At the very least, --force will ruin your rpm database, at worst it could fundamentally destroy your entire system. It's much better to find correct rpms
Ok, I will defer to your judgment on this. However, I have yet to have a problem in this area. However, I was unaware of the risks and appologize in this instance. Might you give a brief example of the danger.
TIA, Curtis.
Thanks for all the help. Nick