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Re: rpm dependency trap
- To: levo <lev.o(at-nospam)sapiens.com>
- Subject: Re: rpm dependency trap
- From: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.shiny.co.il>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:53:02 +0200
- Cc: "linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il" <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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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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