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I wish to install some RPM packages from a shell script. I want to ensure that each package is indeed installed, but I do not want to update a package that would already have an older version installed (to avoid going to deep into dependency resolution).

How can I achieve this in such a way, that a case where an older version is already installed will return without an error code, while in other cases of failures there will be an error code returned? This so that I am able to control the good execution of the script.

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you can install depending of package existence in the system by:

 rpm -q mypackage || rpm -i mypackage.rpm
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Use the following command rpm -q mypackage && rpm -i mypackage.rpm. If querying for the rpm succeeds then installation of the rpm package will proceed. Else If the query fails then the installation will not proceed. However If you use || instead of &&, then despite of the previous command of querying the package fails, it will try to install the package, which anyway doesn't make sense.

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What if you first test on whether the package in question is already installed and if not, you then install it. As you wrote you want to realize this within a Shell script, this would be some kind of if-clause.

Pseudo code: 

if is_installed($package) then return is_already_installed else rpm -i $package return $? fi

The first part could be extended by another test on the currently installed version (e.g. for a final report of the script).

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You may find rpm -q <package name> helpful, or even rpm -U for an upgrade.

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