Ya, I thought about that, but perl is only one of them, I have a good 30 or 40 perl modules installed that were installed through cpan, so I'd also have to get those rpm's, I was just wondering if you could update the rpm database to include other stuff withough actually going to the trouble of finding an rpm.
On 5 Dec 2001 at 0:05, Brian Ashe wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 11:46:40 PM, you babbled something about: > > ID> I installed perl from source, not from and rpm and now any time I install > ID> anything that depends on perl it says > ID> error failed dependancies: > ID> /usr/bin/perl is needed by whatever.rpm > > ID> I do have a /usr/bin/perl and it does work, and if I install the rpm with >--nodeps > ID> it installs and it works. > > ID> How do I tell the rpm database that I have a /usr/bin/perl?? > > You could get a recent version of perl (rpm) and do a... > > rpm -ivh --justdb perl.whatever.rpm > > Untested, but should solve most of your problems. > > Have fun, > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Brian Ashe CTO > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. > http://www.dee-web.com/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > You don't have to swim faster than the shark... > You just have to swim faster than the people you're with. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
