Thread: Upgrading from 7.2.1 to 7.2.3 on RH7.3

Suffice to say I havent a clue on what I am doing.

I am trying to upgrade to 7.2.3 using downloaded RPM's. The installation for 7.2.1 went quite well, but I cannot
upgrade.Here is what happens: 

[root@DOC root]# rpm -U postgresql-libs-7.2.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        postgresql-libs = 7.2.1 is needed by postgresql-7.2.1-4
        postgresql-libs = 7.2.1 is needed by postgresql-server-7.2.1-4
        postgresql-libs = 7.2.1 is needed by postgresql-devel-7.2.1-4

Okay, so lets just try to remove the existing application:

[root@DOC root]# rpm -e postgresql-7.2.1-4.i386.rpm
error: package postgresql-7.2.1-4.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@DOC root]# rpm -e postgresql-libs-7.2.1-4.i386.rpm
error: package postgresql-libs-7.2.1-4.i386.rpm is not installed

I am confused, or maybe even worse.

thanks in advance,

ben

On 28 Oct 2002 at 9:46, Kassel Ben CRBE wrote:
> Suffice to say I havent a clue on what I am doing.
>
> I am trying to upgrade to 7.2.3 using downloaded RPM's. The installation for 7.2.1 went quite well, but I cannot
upgrade.Here is what happens: 
>
> [root@DOC root]# rpm -U postgresql-libs-7.2.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         postgresql-libs = 7.2.1 is needed by postgresql-7.2.1-4
>         postgresql-libs = 7.2.1 is needed by postgresql-server-7.2.1-4
>         postgresql-libs = 7.2.1 is needed by postgresql-devel-7.2.1-4

Put all the new RPMs in one dir, go there and say
    rpm -Fvh *.rpm

man rpm will tell you what it does.

> Okay, so lets just try to remove the existing application:
>
> [root@DOC root]# rpm -e postgresql-7.2.1-4.i386.rpm

You can't remove postgresql-7.2.1-4.i386.rpm because it's not
installed. However postgresql-7.2.1-4 probably is. So this should work
    rpm -e postgresql-7.2.1-4

If you want to know what's installed, do something like
    rpm -qa | grep postgres

This will give you: postgresql-7.2.1-4 (and other stuff). The names
that you find here are valid package names.

HTH.