hi jijo,
you may also just re-run 'rpm -Fvh'
1. at the first run, all packages which don't have unsatisfied
dependencies get to be installed, these are, most probably, the packages which
are pre-requisites to the other packages;
while packages with unsatisfied dependencies will complain.
2. at the second run, since the dependencies have already been installed on the
first run, you'll get less errors.
3. i sometimes have to run it 3 times to get everything installed.
4. it's been a year since i last tried debian. but i recall, when i installed
packages, i had to run something twice or more to the same effect.
hth,
-eric
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 at 09:45, Rommel B. Abaya wrote:
> >try include --nodeps in your rpm switch
>
> This would be forcing things, and that's generally not so good an idea.
> Unless you know what you're doing, of course, which is why that option's
> there. The seeming problem of RPM is its upgrading of "really important
> things". I've messed up systems upgrading glibc, for example, and have
> generally disliked RedHat's distro-upgrade feature. Because of this I've
> always opted to clean-install.
>
> You may want to do the following:
>
> 1. Try it out. Install pieces one by one. If one upgrade complains because
> of dependency issues, install them. AFAIK RPM reorders packages when
> installing/removing. I don't know what it uses as basis for this, though.
> You may want to RTFM.
>
> 2. Do a clean install. Painful if you miss something out, though, and it's
> not as straightforward (might cause extra downtime, but at least you've
> got a clean setup).
>
> 3. Wait for apt to be ported to RPM.
>
> 4. Use something that already uses apt, like say, Debian.
>
> Note: for those of you who may not like my blatant plug, please give me
> credit for putting this distribution-centric suggestion as the last on my
> list. But really, when I started using Debian, I just loved it. Except of
> course for the fact that package releases are a little slow, forcing me to
> figure out how to roll my own packages out (from tar.gz, I make the deb,
> and this is not as 1-2-3 as using an available spec file for RPM).
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