On Sun, 20 May 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
|On 19/05/01 00:53 -0500, Ryan Williams spewed into the LI bitstream:
|
|> RPMs. For instance, when I try to upgrade NCurses from version 5.1-2 to
|> version 5.2.2 using rpm -Uvh ncurses-5.2-2.i386.rpm I get the following
|> message. error: failed dependencies: ncurses = 5.1 is needed by
|
|Try rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force
|
|However, if you are not careful (or just plain unlucky) this will end up
|breaking your existing ncurses install as well ;)
Why use nodeps and force ???
a simple
rpm -Uvh ncurses-5.2-2.i386.rpm ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm
will do the job perfectly !!
Kingsly
.:: Kingsly John ICQ 14787510 ::.
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.:: Linux 2.4.3 #10 Mon Apr 23 22:43:11 IST 2001 i686 ::.
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