On 2001-10-12, AD Marshall wrote:

>I've been trying to work my way through the SeaWolf errata, 
>http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh71-errata.html, and
>have started repeatedly running into what i call a reciprocal
>"failed dependencies" error on several of the updates there.
>I'm using rpm-4.0.2-8 and have had no problem with most of
>the update packages on that page.
>
>Does anyone know if i should use *NOT* use "force" as in
>        rpm -Fvh --force <rpm-file>
>when i come across this error in situations like this?:
>
>[root@vcserver1 errata]# rpm -q up2date
>up2date-2.5.2-1
>[root@vcserver1 errata]# rpm -Fvh up2date-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm
>error: failed dependencies:
>        up2date = 2.5.2 is needed by up2date-gnome-2.5.2-1
>[root@vcserver1 errata]# rpm -Uvh up2date-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm
>error: failed dependencies:
>        up2date = 2.5.2 is needed by up2date-gnome-2.5.2-1
>[root@vcserver1 errata]# rpm -Uvh up2date-gnome-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm
>error: failed dependencies:
>        up2date = 2.5.4 is needed by up2date-gnome-2.5.4-1
>
><end>
>
>Is there something else i should be doing first?

Yes, simply update both packages at once:

  rpm -Uvh up2date*.rpm




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