okay well how would I know if the conflicts "matter"? Blake Barnett wrote: > Yeah.. force it, or get apt-get for RPM. > > http://distro.conectiva.com/projetos/42/ > > It comes integrated with conectiva linux, but it should be usable in > other RPM based distros. It may be a hard way to accomplish a gnucash > install, but it would fix your 'dependancy-hell' problem in the future > as well. > > > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 10:18, Dallas Helquist wrote: > >>Here's what I do - rpm -ihv --force --nodeps , 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" >>To: >>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 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. >>> >>>________________________________________________ >>>See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't >>> >>post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. >> >>>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >>>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>________________________________________________ >>See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. >> >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>