Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Upgrading Ethereal (with RPM)

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:25:52 -0400

Jitesh Shah wrote:

Hi,

I have been trying to upgrade from ethereal 9.8 (RH9 default) to ethereal 10 -11 on the RH9 platform.

I had downloaded srpm and successfully created a ethereal rpm.

When I try to run the rpm -i ethereal.rpm. I also tried rpm  -i --upgrade ethereal.rpm
it shows the following error messages

file /etc/pam.d/ethereal from install of ethereal-0.10.11-2 conflicts with file from package ethereal-0.9.8-6

[...]

Any one faced a problem like this one?? Could some one please help


Try:

rpm -u ethereal.rpm

or

rpm --upgrade ethereal.rpm
("-i" means "install" and in both the examples you gave above you used "-i". According to the man page for 'rpm', anything following "-i" is supposed to be "[install-options]" followed by the RPM(s). "--upgrade" is not an install option but rather a separate mode.)