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Re: rpm dependency trap



On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, levo wrote:

>
> Hi !
>
> 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 requiredfile or library.

  rpm -Uv package1.rpm package2.rpm  [...]

Works almost always. If this doesn't work, please send us a more detailed
descrption.

As for automatically resolving dwependencies:

What distro do you use? From where do you install KDE?
Would anybody comment on how stable are apt/urpmi/any-other-tool for such
dependency resolving?

>
> Q2. The second question is how to upgrade KDEon the fly , i.e. on the
> running system ?

Theoretically:

  rpm -Uv package1.rpm package2.rpm  [...]

I haven't tried it with KDE, but it is worth a shot.

On the (really-really) worst case, your X session goes caput, and you
revert to a console session. rpm works equally well from there.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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