RPM help please

[Carl Parrish]

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 <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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