Why don't you load the RPM with the nodependency option?
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On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Hugh Lawson wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks. I went and got the RPM, but it failed with this line:
> >
> > # rpm -i mrtg-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm
> > failed dependencies:
> > libgd.so.1 is needed by mrtg-2.4.1-1
> >
>
> This raises an question. When you get a failed dependency like this, how
> do you find out which package or source provides the required files?
>
> I had this problem with libpng failed dependencies with an xemacs rpm
> file. I never could figure out which libpng.so number went with with
> which libpng rpm package. Is there a searchable database somewhere that
> will let you input say "libgd.so.1" and which will return a package name
> or a source name?
>
> Hugh Lawson
> Greensboro, North Carolina
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