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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:33:58 -0400
To: Josh Thompson <josht@MIT.EDU>, kennyyu@MIT.EDU
From: Will Koffel <wkoffel@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: dependencies
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU
At 3:23 PM -0400 10/16/98, Josh Thompson wrote:
>> > sometimes when I try to install rpms, there is an error, listing out
>> > a string of "dependencies". What should I do?
>>
>> Install the packages you need to satisfy the dependencies.
>
>although this won't yield success in many or even most examples (dependencies
>exist for a reason)
Yes, dependencies exist for a reason...to be sure that all the versions
of the libraries and binaries on your system will work smoothly
together. You should generally NOT use --nodeps, unless you know what
you are doing, and you're sure that the dependencies rpm notes are either
not applicable to what you need from the package, or are already satisfied
by a library version that will link properly even though rpm doesn't
see it in the install....this does happen, but first you should try
to take its advice and eliminate the dependencies.
One thing to try is using the flag -U instead of -i, which will upgrade
a package from an earlier version. So if you get dependencies that claim
things conflict with earlier versions, that should help the problem.
Otherwise, find the packages it complains about and install them.
You'll be a lot happier in the long run if you take rpm's advice,
rather than hacking the libraries and binaries on your system into
such a state that things start breaking left and right....then you'll
really be hosed!
Good luck.
Will
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