On Wed, 26 May 1999, majd mayyasi wrote:
> Hello fellow newbies and newbietts,
>
> Here is my very first posting: When I try to download a few rpms, I
> get the error message of :
> <somelibrary>...failed dependency...could not find file in <x>
> signifying that I don't have <somelibrary> in location <x>, but when I
> look at location <x>, I DO find the library in question. Does anyone
> know what the problem is?
> Thanx in advance.
This used to annoy me greatly. Now it's just a minor irritant :-)
What is happening is that the RPM is stating it's dependencies in terms
of other RPM packages. If you did not install the required libraries by
means of an RPM package (or if you installed from an RPM from a
different distribution that used a different package name), then the
dependency fails because you haven't met the dependency! In other
words, it's looking for "libfoo-1.0.1-i386.rpm" instead of
"libfoo.so.1". There is a command line switch that you can give to rpm
that will ignore the dependencies (I think it's "-nodeps").
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Arandir...
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