RPM wildcard question

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 10:53 -0200, Lailah wrote:
> El jue, 24-01-2013 a las 01:14 -0500, Doug escribió: 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Well, you can open the terminal and become root  (su).  Aside this
> open the folder containing rpms.  Then type on the terminal 
> 
> yum localinstall 
> 
> Select all rpms and drag them into the terminal.  Then hit enter and
> wait.
> 
> It works to me.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Lailah

Yes you can.
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