At 11:01 PM 1/19/00 -0800, greg walsh wrote:
>But several packages had missing dependencies. I did a full install
>originally, everything but some of the developer stuff. It seems to me
>that I should have the requisite files, given that I installed 6.1 and
>am updating 6.1 --but given the anaconda screwup, I'm not so sure.
I don't know anything specific about the packages you mentioned but here is
some general help:
Some of the devel stuff is needed for unexpected places. For example, to
compile the Perl PostgreSQL DBI (the Perl interface for using the
PostgreSQL database) you need the PostgreSQL devel stuff.
When there are multiple packages (like netscape jumps to mind), you can
sometimes run into circular dependencies (A won't install without B and B
won't install without A). To solve this you should update them all
together with a wildcard; as in "rpm -Uvh netscape*".
If there seems to be a broken depedency, you can try forcing the install or
you can go get the SRPM and install it (I think the SRPM comes with the
spec file that you can fix).
-Alan
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