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

[Vidiot <vidiot cm nu>]

>Could it be your attitude that gets you in troble? (*grin*)

My attitude isn't what put up lousy instruction on the Redhat web site.
Can you blame me for getting pissed at lousy instructions?

>The RPM operation fails because of "dependency check". You don't just
>use "--force" just for the hell of it--you gotta know what you're doing.

Not only didn't I know what needed to be done, but Redhat didn't either,
as it was their instructions I was following.

>At any rate, in the case of failed dependencies, you can get RPM to ignore
>it by using "--no-deps" (not "--force").
>
>In the example above, I'd uninstall 4.51 before installing 4.6. You get
>the same result using "rpm -Uvh --no-deps communi*". 

As JMS pointed out in his posting, wildcarding all of the files results
in RPM figuring everythigng out.  Hell, I didn't know that, and it seems
that JMS is the only one who has posted back that does.  Redhat certainly
didn't, otherwise they would have done so in their instructions on the web
site.

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