Yum Install

[Karl Larsen]

David-Paul Niner wrote:
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 5:36 pm, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Larsen kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 18.
>>>
>>> toukokuuta 2006 21:28):
>>>       
>>>>     Well your saying that with Adobe Acrobat just do it the
>>>> old way. So I am on the Adobe web page and it will be down in
>>>> 15 minutes. It's a big program. And since this is how I used
>>>> to do it I will use rpm -i since I'm not upgrading anything.
>>>>         
>>> No, you should use rpm -Uvh to install or upgrade packages. Use
>>> rpm -i only when you want to install package even if there's an
>>> older version (e.g. for kernel packages).
>>>       
>>     Sorry, I own a copy of Maximum RPM and it goes into details for
>> every control letter. There is no old copy of Adobe Acrobat here. If
>> there was one it would error out telling me so. It didn't. It's
>> installed and working.
>>     
>
> As a general rule, using `rpm -Uvh` is prefered over `rpm -ivh` for 
> straight-up installs because of the reason described above.
>
> Why ask for advice and then debate the answer?
>
> Very curious,
> DP
>
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>   
    The original question was, can you yum install adobe acrobat and the 
real answer is NO!

Karl