[plug] Upgrading a package

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Thu Dec 28 09:25:31 WST 2000


Jon Miller wrote:

> I received the following message when I tried to do an install of samba.

> I have to assume that the newer version has fond files from a previous

> version and therefore will not overwrite them.  So I have to also assume

> that I need to issue rpm -U to do an upgrade.  Does this sound right.

Yes.

If you really really need to overwrite a file, there are switches for 
it. man rpm




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