RPM wildcard question

[Doug]

If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part
of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to
install all of the RPMs at once, like so:
                            rpm -Uvh *.rpm
If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program
in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they
did it this way.)

Thanx--doug

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>    yum localinstall *.rpm
>  -- otherwise, yum will complain that RPM DB was modified by something
>  other than yum (harmless warning, I think..
>  
May not be harmless.

http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7834.html

Always use yum if you can

Rahul

[Rick Stevens]

On 01/24/2013 11:12 AM, Doug issued this missive:
>  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.) 
I've used the *.rpm thing often in the past. Be warned, however, that
the shell expands the "*" bit and passes a list of RPMs to rpm. You can
hit some dependency order issues because of that.

For example, it wants to update "widget-devel". That depends on having
"widget" updated first, but "widget" appears in the expanded filelist
AFTER "widget-devel" and the update fails. Just do

	rpm -Uvh widget.rpm widget-devel.rpm

(i.e. specify the RPMs in the correcto order) separately first. You can
then the "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" again. It'll whine that "widget" and
"widget-
devel" have already been updated, but you knew that. :-)
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[Sylvia Sánchez]

El jue, 24-01-2013 a las 01:14 -0500, Doug escribió:

>  If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part
>  of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to
>  install all of the RPMs at once, like so:
>                              rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>  If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program
>  in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they
>  did it this way.)
>  
>  Thanx--doug
>   

Well, you can open the terminal and become root  (su).  Aside this open
the folder containing rpms.  Then type on the terminal 

yum localinstall 

Select all rpms and drag them into the terminal.  Then hit enter and
wait.

It works to me.


Cheers,
Lailah

[Konstantin Svist]

On 01/23/2013 10:14 PM, Doug wrote:
>  If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part
>  of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to
>  install all of the RPMs at once, like so:
>                             rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>  If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program
>  in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they
>  did it this way.)
>
>  Thanx--doug
>  
yes, it should be doable.
Recommended way, though, is
  yum localinstall *.rpm
-- otherwise, yum will complain that RPM DB was modified by something
other than yum (harmless warning, I think..)

[Panu Matilainen]

On 01/24/2013 09:42 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>  On 01/24/2013 11:12 AM, Doug issued this missive:
> > 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.)
>
>  I've used the *.rpm thing often in the past. Be warned, however, that
>  the shell expands the "*" bit and passes a list of RPMs to rpm. You can
>  hit some dependency order issues because of that.
>
>  For example, it wants to update "widget-devel". That depends on having
>  "widget" updated first, but "widget" appears in the expanded
> filelist
>  AFTER "widget-devel" and the update fails. Just do
>
>       rpm -Uvh widget.rpm widget-devel.rpm
>
>  (i.e. specify the RPMs in the correcto order) separately first. You can
>  then the "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" again. It'll whine that "widget" and
> "widget-
>  devel" have already been updated, but you knew that. :-) 
Um, no. Rpm automatically orders all installs and removals based on 
package dependencies. If the rpm calculated order is wrong, it simply 
means the packages are buggy (ie missing dependencies)

	- Panu -

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 10:53 -0200, Lailah wrote:
>  El jue, 24-01-2013 a las 01:14 -0500, Doug escribió: 
>  > If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part
>  > of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to
>  > install all of the RPMs at once, like so:
>  >                             rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>  > If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program
>  > in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they
>  > did it this way.)
>  > 
>  > Thanx--doug
>  > 
>  
>  Well, you can open the terminal and become root  (su).  Aside this
>  open the folder containing rpms.  Then type on the terminal 
>  
>  yum localinstall 
>  
>  Select all rpms and drag them into the terminal.  Then hit enter and
>  wait.
>  
>  It works to me.
>  
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Lailah 
Yes you can.
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[Doug]

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

[Wojciech Komornicki]

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.
-- 
Wojciech Komornicki

The goal of collegiate mathematics is the understanding of mathematical ideas per se. The
role of
applications is to enhance that understanding and not vice versa.
                                                                                    
Saunders Mac Lane


> >>>> "Doug" == Doug 
> <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net&gt; writes: 
  Doug:> If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part
  Doug:> of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to
  Doug:> install all of the RPMs at once, like so:
  Doug:>                             rpm -Uvh *.rpm
  Doug:> If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program
  Doug:> in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they
  Doug:> did it this way.)

  Doug:> Thanx--doug

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