Re: [TCLUG:5126] redhat rpm stuff

[Dan Middleton <middle@cs.umn.edu>]

I just upgraded my XFree86 last week.  One of the other people on the
list sent me this URL which was really helpful.  Aside from the download
time (which was still fast since I was at work) the whole upgrade took
about 5 minutes.  
Note that the web page uses "rpm -Uvh --force"
www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/XFree86-upgrade/XFree86-upgrade.html


On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Nathaniel Moore wrote:

> I was able to mount my dos partition (thanks to all of you who helped).
> I then copied over a copy of Xfree86-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm onto my linux disk.
> I then tried to install it by typing in:
> rpm -ivh (Xfree...rpm)
> 
> which brought up an error because files were already in existance.
> 
> I then tried:
> 
> rpm -Uvh (Xfree...rpm)
> 
> which brought up similar errors
> I then tried:
> rpm -ivh --replacefiles (Xfree...rpm)
> which seemed to install fine.  However now when i run Xconfiguator.  I can
> scroll down to my video card (diamond viper 550, riva TNT).  However when i
> press "enter" I get a seg fault and the core dumps.  Anyone else have this
> problem?  and is it a result of my install procedure or a software issue?
> 
> 
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