On Mon, 8 May 2000, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> >Sounds like someone goofed when making the RPM. There may be some examples
> >scripts that have perl in /usr/local/bin (standard place for it.) instead
> >of /usr/bin (RedHat's location.) This is one case where you should be safe
> >in using the --force option of RPM. This assumes you do have perl installed.
>
> $ perl -v
> This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux...
>
> $ which perl
> /usr/bin/perl
>
> Still no luck:
>
> $ rpm -i --force apache-ssl-1.3.6_1.35-3.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> /usr/local/bin/perl5 is needed by apache-ssl-1.3.6_1.35-3
>
> Then I created a hard link from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl but
> received the same error message.
>
> Glen
>
Glen,
Adding the link will not help with RPM. It just checks the RPM
database for what is installed, not the local file system. But I did
goof - it should be --nodeps instead on --force. Sorry about that.
Mikkel
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