On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 01:19, Michael Jinks wrote: > Since none (or few) of your dependencies are installed via RPM, RPM > doesn't know anything about them and will think they're missing.
well, apart from this software i'd like to use - nothing has been installed via RPM (thank heavans ;) > Given that you're living on a system that doesn't rely on RPM primarily > for package management, one possibility is to use the --force option, > effectively telling RPM to STFU and just install the damn package > already. But since you don't really care about RPM's package management > facilities -- you just want to copy this software onto your system -- > I'd probably opt for a different approach. Convert the .rpm(s) to cpio > archives (rpm2cpio, IIRC); this will allow you to unpack them anywhere > (say, /usr/local/PACKAGENAME, or wherever) and avoid mucking up your > main / and /usr. well, the extracting (via mc/rpm2cpio and the like) just worked fine, though the software isn't really working properly *sigh* "back to the drawing board" as they say.... -Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
