I got similar dependency complaints, although nothing refering to to XFree86. I also told it to ignore and simply upgrade. It seems to be running fine. The web page that caused 4.74 to fold up and close moments before, loaded just fine with 4.75. Can't explain the dependency/error messages. Barry :-) Paul wrote: > 2000-09-23. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >Paul, you "HAVE" to run XFree 4.* I suppose because the new netscape uses > >new libraries? (I don't know) as for rpmlib I have that problem too, but > >usually I fix every dependancy except that, then use --nodeps to get past > >it. I've never had a problem with the packages after that. > > >> [root@internet paul]# rpm -iv netscape-common-4.75-7mdk.i586.rpm > >> error: failed dependencies: > >> XFree86 >= 4.0 is needed by netscape-common-4.75-7mdk > >> rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by > >> netscape-common-4.75-7mdk > > Hi Adam, > > After using some "--force" on rpm things went all fine. I don't really > understand this, and perhaps never will. But it helped. Another remark > that rpm made over this was, that Bluefish (a simple HTML editor) also > depended on netscape-common and for that reason it was not good to throw > the old one out. But I have no problem running Bluefish with the latest > NS4.75 common files installed. With Xfree3.<dunno>. > > Paul > > -- >
