On Sunday 19 October 2003 8:00 pm, someone claiming to be Tony Alfrey wrote: > Hi; > > I'm trying to install a SuSE rpm onto a Caldera partition and > rpm --test gives me the typical big list of dependencies (all > libraries). I have all of the libraries that it complains about, but > they're probably not in the same place that SuSE puts them. So my > question is: > - Does rpm read the results of 'locate' or the rpm database file?
The rpm database. > - If it does, should it not be able to find the needed files/libraries? If it does what? rpm knows only what's in its database. > - Is there a generic fix for this sort of symptom?? > There's the --nodeps switch that bypasses rpm's dependancy checking. If you're certain that the needed libs are indeed installed, it should be fine. The problem is, too many people use --nodeps or --force without really knowing what it does, and get upset when things stop working. Regards, Tim -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-20.8, KDE 3.1.4, Xfree86 4.2.1 8:25pm up 14 days, 22:15, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.01 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
