[sane-devel] Re: Upgrade question

[T. Ribbrock]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:20:30AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> >Where on earth did you get that sane-1.0.3 RPM from? It was not among
> >the ones you listed as downloaded in your original mail! So, why are
> >you installing it? As I mentioned in my earlier mails, "sane-1.0.3" is
> >an *older* version of sane - but you've already successfully installed
> >1.0.10/1.0.11 - you've said so yourself above. Forget that package!
> 
> Sorry, I have no idea where did "sane-1.0.3" come from.  "rpm -qa | grep 
> sane" could not find it.

Of course not - it's *not* installed, so rpm cannot find it!
But when you tried to upgrade/install the newer RPMs, you used
"rpm -Uhv *.rpm", which would try to use *all* RPMs present in the currect
directory. So, for whatever reasons, there is a sane-1.0.3-.SOMETHING.rpm
in the same directory you stored the newer RPMs in.

Hint: If using a wildcard when installing/upgrading RPMs (like so: '*.rpm'),
you need to make *absolutely sure* that the directory you're in contains
*only* the RPMs you really want to install/upgrade, otherwise, chaos will
ensue...

 
[...]
> I have following packages for RH8.0 downloaded but encountering problem 
> to install them

BZZZZZZT! No need to read further for me. Stephen, please think about
this: You *yourself* told us that you have a RHL 7.3 system. WHY are
you downloading RHL 8.0 packages to install on that system?

Cheerio,

Thomas
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