well i tried that and i got another list of new dependencies i'll try the "upgrade" install a little later when the box isn't so busy thanks for the help
_________________________________ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us - unknown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "list redhat (general)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:10 PM Subject: Re: rpm dependency dependency dependency..... > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, daniel wrote: > > > hello all > > i've got a sparc64 box here running rh62 > > and i'm trying to install the up2date rpm from the cd > > (didn't think to install it initially) > > but when i run this: > > > > rpm --install --allfiles up2date-1.13-1.noarch.rpm > > > > it says i need: > > pygnome > > mygtk > > usermode >= 1.15 > > > > so i try to install pygnome the same way > > and it says i need: > > pygtk > > gnome-libs > > ...various libs. > > > > usermode requires a bunch of stuff too > > which some of which i'm sure require other things etc. > > > > isn't there a way to say something like: > > "install up2date with all dependencies" > > Yes ... unfortunately you need up2date :o) > > There are a couple of third-party tools, but one easy way to do this > is actually to boot from the CD and do an "upgrade" install ... select > the up2date package and nothing else, then when Anaconda complains > about the missing dependencies tell it to include packages to satisfy > them. > > It's simpler than it sounds ... > > > it also seems that it's requiring a lot of gui type things > > gtk, gnome etc. > > but the box only runs on the command line > > so i don't know what's going on here. > > > > someone please shed some light on this mess? > > Are you sure you're trying just the "up2date" package and not the > "up2date-gnome" package too? The plain up2date package shouldn't > be requiring the gnome libraries as far as I can see. > > If you're on a reasonable connection, try > > rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/ os/i386/up2date-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm > > (copy and paste that, it should all be on line) and see what happens? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
