new to Linux

Christofer C. Bell cbell at jayhawks.net
Fri May 26 20:16:06 CDT 2000


On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jason Fruge wrote:

> 
> > Actually, 95% of the time, installing software on an RPM based
> > distribution consists of:
> > 
> > # rpm -Uvh package.rpm
> > 
> > And nothing more.
> 
> ok, but thats upgrading =o)
> 
> # rpm -i would be install =oP~

Actually, no, -Uvh works either way.  It will install if you don't have it
installed yet, it will upgrade if you do.

-- 
Chris




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