Re: RPM doesn't do as it is told.

["Yuki Taga" <yukitaga twics com>]

What you have to do in this case is uninstall the rpm that is causing the 
problem.  In this case, rpm -e netscape-navigator, and rpm -e netscape-
communicator.  The rpm -Uvh netscape-common, which will now work, 
followed by rpm -i both of the other packages.  (Someone had to teach 
me, too.)  ^_^  It was too logical for me.

Yuki ^_^

On 30 May 99, at 23:15, Vidiot wrote:

> 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?
> 
> MB
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