Im planning to install xfce and i was wondering how to install all the rpms at once? It will be a pain to install all rpm files one at a time

Thanks for the help

you can wildcard it too but sometimes you run into dependency issues, especially with packages that have "circular" dependencies.
linux_terror

ok cool, is it possible to use the arguement -nodep though?

hmm, did more research and to install multiple rpms at once with no dependancies is:

rpm -Uhv *.rpm --nodeps --force

It's never a good idea to use the --force and --nodeps options, unless you know very very well what you're doing. Dependencies aren't there just to annoy users (although they do). They exist for a reason. Applications generally need certain libraries to function correctly, like it or not.

If you use these options, at first everything may seem to go fine, but you'll run a great risk of breaking stuff. Whatever you've installed may turn out not to work properly after all, and you're very likely to waste your rpmdb, which will cause more installation troubles in the future.

If you put all necessary rpms in a single directory and use rpm -Uvh *.rpm, rpm generally does a very good job sorting out the order in which it needs to install the rpms in order to solve any dependency issues. It's always better to satisfy dependencies properly, in stead of looking away and pretending they don't exist. You can use http://rpmfind.net to find missing packages.

I don't recommend using sites such as rpmfind for packages or dependencies if you can help it. You are better of setting up a package management tool such as apt/synaptic and use proven repositories such as the ones provided by the distro and well tried out third parties such as freshrpms and dag coz dependencies are automatically resolved and you are sure that the packages are for your particular distro.

You're absolutely right there. I use apt a lot myself.
Occasionaly though, I do find packages from rpmfind will solve problems even if they are for other distro's, as long as they're somewhat similar. Of course your mileage may vary, and it's probably not good practice. I personally prefer compiling from source if no packages for my distribution are available.

You're using SuSE, so why not use the YAST software manager? It'll take care of deps for you.