RPM help please

[Blake Barnett]

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 <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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