[installation +updates of packages]pb with YUM

[Bernd Radinger]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:41:39 +0100, Daniel Moyne <dmoyne at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> synaptics-0.14.0-1
> entre en conflit avec le fichier du paquetage synaptics-0.13.5-5
>         le fichier /usr/share/man/man1/synclient.1.gz de l'installation de
> synaptics-0.14.0-1 entre en conflit avec le fichier du paquetage
> synaptics-0.13.5-5
>         le fichier /usr/share/man/man1/syndaemon.1.gz de l'installation de
> synaptics-0.14.0-1 entre en conflit avec le fichier du paquetage
> synaptics-0.13.5-5
> 
> So it means synaptics is already installed with another version 0.13.5-5 but
> if I do :
> [root at azun ~]# synaptics
> -bash: synaptics: command not found
> 
> I do not understand : if synaptics (graphical application to handle packages)
> is already installed how to run it !

you want ``synaptic'' not ``synaptics''.

two different names, two different packages.

look at:  rpm --query --info synaptics synaptic

Synaptic in package ``synaptic'' from
http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/ is the package utility.

-- 
Bernd ``reading slowly often does wonders'' R.