Cant install Mozilla 1.0

[Sonuby]

I downloaded the mozilla rpms from the download section and i cant get them to install this is what ive tried so far:
#rpm -Fvh [Directory]/*rpm this just does nothing all i get is a new prompt i check with
#rpm -qa | grep -i "file name" and it says the package isnt installed
When i try:
#rpm -U [Directory].rpm I get failed dependencies
When I try:
#rpm -i [Directory].rpm Iget conflicks with file from package xxxxx (The existing packages)
I know theres a good posability that if i uninstall the curent package that i could get it installed but id like to upgrade .
Whats the dillio
Thanx

[mdwatts]

Does

rpm -qa | grep mozilla

show the package to be installed?

Have you tried

rpm -Uvh mozilla*.rpm

[Sonuby]

I will try that one question though does the symbol indicate the package name?

[Bokkenka]

Originally posted by mdwatts
rpm -qa | grep mozilla

Originally posted by Sonuby
I will try that one question though does the symbol indicate the package name?

Ummm... Little lost on that, so I'll explain what the command does, hoping it'll help.

rpm is, of course, the rpm command.

The option -q queries the list of installed packages. If you knew the name of a package, you could rpm -q package_name.rpm , and it would tell you if it was installed.

The option a lists all the installed packages. It's as if you did a rpm -q *.rpm

If you just ran rpm -qa , you would get a long list of packages scrolling down the screen.

The | is called a pipe. It pipes the output from the first command, rpm -qa , into the second command, grep mozilla .

grep is the second command. It's like Find on a web-page... It searches for the expression you want to find.

In this case, the expression searched for is mozilla . If it finds the expression, it prints out the line in which it was found.

So, put it all together, the command searches for "mozilla" in the list of installed packages. If it finds, it will print out the names of the packages.


If you are asking about the rpm -Uvh mozilla*.rpm , then the asterisk (*) is a wild-card. It will match anything. So, the command will try to upgrade any package in the directory with a name that begins with "mozilla" and ends with ".rpm".

[Sonuby]

Ok thanks Bokkeka my question was on the asterisk, I couldnt think of the name at the time and I was in a hurry.
Thats alot of good info i stumbled upon the same answer while looking up the problem how the asterisk completes the entry and stuff.
Does anyone have a clue where I screwed up with the commands they worked on a Mandrake 8.2 system the same as mine and the rpms were gotten off a mandrake page. Ok now to try mdwatts command.
Thanx again