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Re: can't use rpm -u

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Sun Nov 3 13:53:52 1996

Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 13:51:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0b26.32.19961103134443.00802b20@j.imap.itd.umich.edu>
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On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Jeremie Kass wrote:

> In the list I read that we're supposed to upgrade packages that fixes have
> come out for. I thought I'd try it out with the updated rpm:
> 
> [root@kitch2 upgrades]# rpm -u rpm-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm 
> error: -u and --uninstall are depricated and no longer work.
> error: Use -e or --erase instead.
> 
> 
> What should I do? rpm -i? rpm -e?

rpm -U (note the uppercase U)

-- Elliot

A: "Talk about stupidity!"
B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"


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