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Re: rpm dependency trap



On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, levo wrote:
> Q1.  My question is how to install some package and the packages it
> depends on at once.
> 
> I found myself very often in situations when I should chase dependency
> tree manually,  looking which package
> contains required  file or library.

rpm -i file1.rpm file2.rpm

RPM should be smart enough to see that all the dependencies will end up
satisfied when the installation finishes. (replace -i with -U to
upgrade)
 
> Q2. The second question is how to upgrade KDE  on the fly , i.e. on the
> running system ?

Upgrade as usual (with 'rpm -U ...') and restart KDE.

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