VirtualBox installation question.

[Reindl Harald]

Am 17.12.2011 00:17, schrieb Erik P. Olsen:
> On 16/12/11 23:54, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>> Am 16.12.2011 23:50, schrieb Erik P. Olsen:
>>> I have installed VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.14_74382_fedora14-1.x86_64 and have been running it for quite some time. I have
>>> now noticed that a new version VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74713_fedora14-1.x86_64 is available but not as an update only
>>> as a new install. Is it safe to remove the current package and install the new one? Will my virtual machines be
>>> automatically picked up by the installation process?
>>
>> this is linux not windows
>> rpm -Uvh "package.rpm" or better "yum --nogpgcheck update package.rpm"
>> to update downloaded packages
> 
> My question had nothing to do with windows. I have never run windows except as virtual machines. and "yum update
> VirtualBox*" gets "No Packages marked for Update" so a clean install is needed.

* download the rpm
* go in the folder with the rpm
* type "yum --nogpgcheck update filename.rpm"

yum is not limited to repos
if something is installed as rpm a "clean install" is not needed
why? because for a rpm a "clean install" does not exist
a rpm-package knows which files are form the apckages, which are
new and which are obsoleted to remove, that is why a package-manager
exists

your user-data has nothing to do with the rpm/software/package
a virtual machine for vbox/vmware whatever is the same as a doc for openoffice
it is yur data and has nothing to do with install/update/uninstall the software

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