jeff,
thanks for the speedy reply.
i however could get around the issue.
even with -u the install failed to produce any results.
i finally tried
rpm -i -nodeps ethereal* and it worked :)
Regards,
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Jitesh Shah T8056601107
Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd, F8022237905
Consulate 1, 1 Richmond Road, M9880016737
Richmond Circle,
Bangalore-560025
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Morriss
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 5:56 PM
> To: Ethereal user support
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Upgrading Ethereal (with RPM)
>
>
>
> 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.)
>
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