VirtualBox installation question.

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 12/16/2011 09:34 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> 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
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>> 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
>

It has to be a "clean install" from my point of view, because he has to 
remove one package and then install the other. Why? Because the newer 
one has a different name. In the format of name-version-release.arch, 
this is:

Old package: VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.14_74382_fedora14-1.x86_64
New package: VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74713_fedora14-1.x86_64

so the old one is called VirtualBox-4.0 and the newer is VirtualBox-4.1.

(BTW, Erik, take into account that F14 is EOL. We are in F16, and the 
same versio of VirtualBox is available).

HTH,
Germán.

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Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux