Vinay Pai wrote: >I think RPM has some option to reinstall a package and overwrite >existing files. Use it if possible. > >If not, and you need to uninstall gtk, you whould use the --nodeps >option, and make sure you replace it with the same version as you >removed, or else other programs may fail.
Hold on to your horses man! Don't go around advising people to use --force and --nodeps unless they are absolutely sure they know how RPM works and how important dependencies are!! >You might also need to re-run ldconfig. (Or maybe RPM does it for >you... Most likely that this will not be needed. > I don't know, I'm more a tarball fan.) And I am an apt-get fan .... yeeeehaawwww!!! As far as tarballs go, I preferred "rpm -bb" on my old RHL box, but havn't yet figured out how to created debs on my Debian box. SameerDS. -- MTech Student, Reconfigurable Computing Lab, KReSIT, IIT-Bombay _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
