On 01/24/2013 12:26 PM, Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
Expansion of the asterisk is handled by the shell. To see what such a command will do, issue the command echo *.rpm You will see the full list of RPMs.
I thank all of you folks who have answered. It turns out that the code I suggested-- rpm -Uvh *.rpm --works fine. I looked in your fine book on RPM, but could not find it in there. since it is a draft, albeit about 2 years old now, perhaps the authors will add this command to the text.
I posted here because of the wide use of RPMs in Fedora, altho I an using PCLOS, and cannot use YUM! (PCLOS uses RPMs, but except for out-of-repo installs, they are all handled by Synaptic. It's only the programs that are not in the repo that require the command line operation.)
--doug