RPM doesn't do as it is told.

[Vidiot <vidiot cm nu>]

I know that Redhat is real proud of the RPM system that it has.  But it causes
me no end of grief when trying to do updates of packages.

Prime example.  On the Redhat website they discusses a new Netscape RPM that
should be installed because of a security fix.  They give "rpm -Uvh file"
as the instruction for each of the three Netscape packages.  Guess what Redhat,
it don't f**king work.  Witness:

rpm -Uvh netscape-common-4.6-1.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
        netscape-common = 4.51 is needed by netscape-communicator-4.51-3

So, I do:

rpm -Uvh --force netscape-common-4.6-1.i386.rpm  
error: failed dependencies:
        netscape-common = 4.51 is needed by netscape-communicator-4.51-3

What good is rpm if it doesn't do what you want?  These catch-22 situations
have always given me trouble.  Did anyone at Redhat even try their own
instructions on a fresh 6.0 install?  It seems not, otherwise it would have
given the same error as I got.

I even tried:

rpm -Uvh --force netscape-communicator-4.6-1.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
        netscape-common = 4.6 is needed by netscape-communicator-4.6-1


So, just how is someone supposed to install these new Netscape rpms?  Most
importantly, when is rpm going to be fixed so that --force really does force
the update?

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