RPM help please

[Dallas Helquist]

Here's what I do - rpm -ihv --force --nodeps <RPMFILE>,  It doesn't check
for dependancies/conflicts etc, but it will install the rpm.    If you know
the conflicts that come up don't matter it's safe to use.

-dallas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Parrish" <cparrish@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:56 AM
Subject: RPM help please


> Okay without saying "carl you should use apt-get" can someone help me
> with rpm? I'm trying to get gnucash installed its saying I need
> libguile.so.9 so I went to rpmfind and see that that's part of the
> guile-1.4 rpm. I did a rpm -q on guile and see that I have
> guile-1.3.4-16 installed so I do rpm -U guile-1.4<blahblahblah> and it
> comes back with a list of dependences that need guile-1.3 to run. It was
> my understanding that the -U switch was to Upgrade the package so that
> all the programs depending on the old packetage could still run. Up
> until this point the steps I've taken so far either worked or I just
> gave up and installed from source but I've decided now to really
> understand RPM any tricks I should try that I haven't? Any good
> "detailed" info on RPM? I'm looking for something with a bit more
> explanation than the man page.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl P.
>
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