Many thanks for the tip Tony, I did in fact delete both files, but
something got stuck in the works.   Cheers.>
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 lenbird@iinet.net.au wrote:
>
>> I keep abreast of Linux updates in Linuxberg inter alia.  Many of these
>> updates of existing
>> programs are available in RPM format which oghtg to work for both RH and
>> Mandrake,
>
><snip>
>
>> Anyone got any ideas, my thanks if you have and be kind enough to
advise.
>
>Firstly You don't need to remove a package before updating it.  from the
>command line sinmply use rpm -U [filename].rpm  this will handle the
remove
>for you.  There should be an option on GNOrpm to Upgrade automagically.
>
>Secondly: fetchmail and fetchmailconf are seperate rpms.  you nee to
remove
>fetchmailconf witha command line like rpm -e fetchmailconf.
>
>HTH
>
>Yours Tony.
>
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