Hi Lincoln, Lincoln M C a �crit : > rpm -U whatever.rpm --nodeps I also did, but it seems to me that doing that you loose some interrest of using RPMs, or does that just ignore dependancies it relies on ?? is there any chance you break something doing that ??? > If one of the scripts within the rpm fails because it can find a program > in the correct place this can normaly be fixed. Yesterday I was > clobbered by a package not being able to find grep in /bin. I had grep > installed but in the suse place. I just added a symbolic link between > /bin/grep and /usr/bin/grep. This fixed it. You are saying that some programs are not installed in the same place from linux to linux !!! This must end as quickly as possible !?!? > > > Get the source rpm and try :- > > rpm --rebuild mysourcerpm.src.rpm > > (or suse use .spm) > > then look in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386 > > You should find a recompiled version of the rpm, this will be linked > against all your libs. > > Sometimes this takes a bit of hacking. Do you mean that i you get the source RPM you can rebuild a binary RPM which fits your system ?? If so, does that means that when there are only redhat package, I just have to get the source RPM then try to rebuild it for my system ?? > > > You can get suse rpms for gnome from a site thats linked off the gonome > site. Unfortunatly they are RPM'ed with a very new version of RPM and > my version (as came with suse 6.0) wont install them. > > Maybe we should set up a suse RPM site. I have the space (and bandwidth > 8-)) to host it untill the usage got noticed 8-). > > I have the following programs rpm'ed for suse :- > > cdrecord-1.6.1-12.i386.rpm > lyx-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm > xawtv-2.40-1.i386.rpm > I'd love to get the new version of Lyx the one I have does not support figures or pictures Regards GH portefait -- "Computers are like air conditioners - they stop working properly when you open Windows" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC d-@ s+:- C++(++++)UL++>++++ P++>++++ L++>+++ E-W+(++) N++ !o K- w !O M(++) V? !PS !PE y+ PGP+++ t+ 5? X R* tv b+ DI? D+ G+++ e+++ h+ r y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.geekcode.com
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