On Thu, Jan 22, 2004, Simon Bryan wrote: > The question is can/should I override the dependencies or the 'conflicts' > (what does that mean anyway). If I should override the conflicts and > install them first, what is the command to do so? Overwrite Package? > Overwrite Files?
If I understand your post correctly, the problem is that mysql can't be upgraded without MySQL-devel and MySQL-devel can't be upgraded without mysql. The solution is to install them at the same time: rpm -Uvh rpm1.rpm rpm2.rpm If it keeps whinging, add more RPMs to that list until it consents to install them. The reason you can do this is that the dependencies are runtime dependencies -- they don't _need_ the others to exist at install time, but unless you have the dependency installed the program you just installed won't run. Hence why rpm checks. I don't know which version of Red Hat (Mandrake, SuSE, whatever...) you're running, but I'd recommend using one of the tools that automatically works out dependencies for you and automatically installs other packages as needed. yum is one such tool, another is urpmi and up2date is a third. You don't need it for to solve this problem though. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
