Re: Updating RPM in Mandrake

On 18 Mar 2003 at 17h01, Adam Wolfe Gordon wrote:

Hi,

> > I've DLed the latest version RPM from the Everybuddy website but when
> > I run RPM -Uvh I get an error that  v 0.2.1-0beta6.6mdk is already
> > installed and is *newer* than the v 0.4.3-4 that I'm trying to
> > install.
> a) uninstall the old version first (using gnorpm or kpackage is easier
> than on the commandline)
> b) use rpm --nodeps so it won't check dependencies.  Again, if you use 
> gnorpm or kpackage to make things easier, they're GUI's for RPM
> management.

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage

--nodeps is for missing dependencies

Strange that v0.2.1 is considered newer than 0.4.3 though.

HTH,
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Colin
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