hi,
* Willem Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Gordon McDowall wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have recently came to RedHat after using various other flavours of linux,
> > the main difference between what I am used to and RedHat is the use of rpms
> > instead of source. Here is my problem.
> > I installed a RedHat 7.3 machine as a cacheing DNS server, by default
> > bind-9.2.0 is installed. Now I have found a bind-9.2.1 rpm, but when you
> > try to install it using rpm -Uvh --freshen bind-9.2.1.blah.blah I get an
> > error
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > bind = 9.2.0 is needed by bind-devel-9.2.0-8
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> >
> >
>
> You'll need to update all the bind rpms at the same time. To get a list
> of the installed rpms:
>
> rpm -qa bind\*
>
Added information if required:
If you already have installed rpmdb-redhat-7.3-0.20020613.i386.rpm
then you can find out the dependencies required by the particular rpm
for ex:
in your case to find what other pkgs bind requires execute this
$ rpm -q --redhatrequires bind
-cheers-
rk
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