 | | | rpm upgrading | rpm upgrading 2003-07-23 - By Jesse Keating
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On Tuesday 22 July 2003 22:02, Matt D. Brei wrote:
> I got it to work. I didn't use -Uhv. And no, I wasn't using wildcards,
> it was just an example (bad one at that). I was trying to update MySQL
> from 3.23 to 4. I installed the client tools first, then the shared,
> then tried the server package but got errors about perl-DBD being needed
> by MySQL-3.23. I then tried to remove MySQL-3.23 with the -ev option,
> that said it was required by perl-DBD, then when I tried to remove
> perl-DBD it said it was needed by MySQL-3.23. I finally got it to work
> with a --force -ihv MySQL-server.rpm. The databases are all up and
> running just fine on the new version. For future reference though, how
> does one go about updating a package? The way up2date does it. I don't
> mind using up2date, but it always seems like its a few releases behind.
You would use -Uvh on the whole group of packages at once.
rpm -Uvh mysql-*.rpm
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