RPM wildcard question

[Konstantin Svist]

On 01/23/2013 10:14 PM, Doug wrote:
> If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part
> of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to
> install all of the RPMs at once, like so:
>                            rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program
> in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they
> did it this way.)
>
> Thanx--doug
>

yes, it should be doable.
Recommended way, though, is
  yum localinstall *.rpm
-- otherwise, yum will complain that RPM DB was modified by something
other than yum (harmless warning, I think..)