On Monday 08 January 2001 17:13, you wrote:
> howdy. a while back Alex answered a question for someone else, and i
> have the same problem. their corel photopaint 9 would not run as the
> fonttastic font server was not installed. Alex said to simply install
> the rpm as it should be with the corel files. well, i went to do this
> (i do have the rpm) but i get the following output:
>
> file /etc/init.d from install of fonttastic
> conflicts with file from package initscripts-5.27-37mdk
>
> what exactly is this init.d file?
It is a directory, and it should already exist. You are getting the
conflict because the rpm is trying to create it.
> i find that "ls init.d" gives a whole list of files for an output.
>
> what are my options to get around this?
> if i simply force the install is something going to crash and burn?
>
use the force option, you should not crash and burn... At least I didn't..
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
