Oh, please. Never ever give someone the advice to use --force with rpm. I
totally screwed up my old redhat 5.2 that way, about a year ago.
Instead, identify and download the package that would satisfy these dependencies
and install it first. Or just put 'em on the same line alltogether like this:
rpm -Uvh netscape-file dependency-file
On Mar 28 Anthony Huereca wrote:
> You must download this file:
>ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-common-4.72-6.i386.rpm
>
> and then you can choose either communictor (the full thing,
> browser+email+newsreader):
>ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.72-6.i386.rpm
> or for just the browser:
>
>ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-navigator-4.72-6.i386.rpm
>
> use "rpm -Uvh the_netscape_file" to upgrade.
> Or if that doesnt' work (I think it may give you dependency errors), try "rpm
> --force -Uvh the_netscape_file"
>
>
> > which file(s) do I download for the 4.72 update...
> > will it work on Mandrake...seeing as most drake files...
> > are of the i586.rpm format...
> >
> > steve harris wrote:
> > >
> > > Someone asked earlier about browsers.
> > >
> > > Not really anything other than Netscape. Mozilla is getting better though,
> > > M14 is the latest I think.
> > >
> > > This 4.72 Netscape is better on my old machine than the 4.61 and 4.70
> > > "stable" versions.
> > >
> > > Download the 4.72 stable versions from this ftp site.
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/
> > >
> > > The single file versions from the Netscape site itself always seemed to be
> > > unstable.
> > >
> > > fwiw
> > >
> > > steve
> > >
>
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