Installing RPM s

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, July 26, 2004 12:59 PM +1000 Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> 
wrote:

> Pop up a terminal, su to root and then cd to the directory with the rpm
> in it. Then:
>
> 	rpm -ivh foo.rpm

No!!!!

The -i (install) switch is only appropriate for kernels. For all other 
packages, use -U (update). It will also install if the package isn't 
present, but it will remove any old versions if they are. (This isn't 
appropriate for kernels, as you don't want to uninstall the old one until 
you've tested the new one. Then you use -e (erase) to remove the old one.)