"R.I.P. Deaddog" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Spencer wrote:
>
> > > Well, seems this circular dependency is, in fact, CORRECT. GConf requires
> > > libGConf1 to run; however it is reported earlier that programs linking
> > > with libGConf1 needs GConf in order to run too (hope my interpretation of
> > > previous posts is correct).
> > >
> > The problem remains that they won't install. Even rpm -ivh won't install
> > unless forced.
>
> In fact it CAN be installed and upgraded, but via command line:
>
> rpm -ivh GConf-xxxxx.rpm libGConf1-xxxxx.rpm
>
> Ditto for rpm -Uvh. I'm not sure the outcome when using urpmi or
> mandrakeupdate though.
>
> The best fix seems to be merging GConf and libGConf1 together into 1
> package.
>
I tried that from command line and it complained about circular
dependency. I would still have to force one package.
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Spence
