[afnog] installing multiple rpms

[Mark Tinka]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:35, Mukasa Assey Alfred wrote:
> I thought i would leave --nodeps in that command so
> that i don't have to worry about the order of
> installation of the rpms.
>
> I figured that rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm will pick rpms
> in alphabetical order or something like that...., thus
> some packages would be installed before their
> dependencies.
>
> Don't you think --nodeps would help in fixing such
> issues?

No. The --nodeps switch tells the 'rpm' command to ignore 
dependency errors/conflicts and go on to install the 
package, regardless.

I haven't tried installing an entire application this 
way, but if the order does become a problem, you can 
install the required packages by hand.

Mark.
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