-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 10:14, TC wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]# rpm -Fvh up2date-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > up2date = 3.1.23 is needed by (installed) > up2date-gnome-3.1.23-1
up2date-gnome is the graphical front-end to up2date. You'll need to upgrade both at the same time. Just put them both on the same command line. (No, it isn't clear from the docs that that'll work). (but I've no idea where you might get rhnlib from, either fedora distro or perhaps fedora-legacy) Just a word of warning. up2date used to be RedHat's clone of autorpm (if I've got the chronology the right way around). autorpm keeps your machine in sync, but originally didn't do any dependency fixing. Fairly recent versions had ways of guessing the RPM filename from dependency-name and so could fix certain problems, but it was by no means fool-proof (and RedHat did have a habit of breaking it). meta-package managers (apt, yum, ...) build and maintain a database of these mappings, so they can (in principle) always fix dependencies. That is provided you don't ask the system to do something that's impossible ;^) AFAIK, there's a RPM-port of Debian's apt, and a generic port of (Mandrake's ?) yum for RedHat platforms (fedora and legacy systems). I've heard good things about yum, and I image apt will work fine too, but I can say for sure as I'm now going with Debian (which is very nice). HTH, Paul. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAydtZ/9JwS78PA+kRApKkAJ92efjPmNOq/DVCLLedZ3imUkFk1gCfXoki fRvu3Be4hqOxd9BH6OK3n1A= =KTe9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish