Author: Erwin J. van Eijk
Email: eijk@huygens.org
Web Page: http://www.huygens.org
Date Submitted: Sat, Apr 18, 1998
Status: New Entry

Releases: all
Platform: all
Category:  RPM & RPM's
Category Listing:  "UPGRADING PACKAGES"

Issue

I noticed some new bugfix releases of packages I use regularly. But when
I try to install them with

	rpm -ivh packagename-1.0-2.i386.rpm

it refuses with

	package packagename-1.0-2 is already installed

How can I install packagename-1.0-2?

Response

First use

	rpm -qa | grep filename

to detect whether a package has been installed on the system.

If 

	rpm -i filename...rpm

does not work because there already exists a package of the name/type on
the system, you can use

	rpm -i -U filename...rpm
to upgrade the package.

References

This information was from some helpful people on the redhat
mailing list.