Thanks to two responders. Good explanation and it worked perfectly. Now I can eliminate one more thing I needed MS for. bruce
On Monday 29 April 2002 10:11 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:00:06 -0500 > > bbales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated: > > I downloaded the rpm for gnumeric-1.0.5, and tried to upgrade from the > > redhat 7.2 provided gnumeric-0.67-10. I get a failed dependencies > > message as below: > > > > [root@bertha rpms]# rpm -U gnumeric-1.0.5-3.i386.rpm > > error: failed dependencies: > > gnumeric = 0.67 is needed by gnumeric-devel-0.67-10 > > > > [root@bertha rpms]# rpm -q gnumeric > > gnumeric-0.67-10 > > > > [root@bertha rpms]# rpm -q gnumeric-devel > > gnumeric-devel-0.67-10 > > > > It appears rpm is requiring an exact match for gnumeric-0.67 and > > cannot accept gnumeric-0.67-10. Did I misunderstand the error and how > > can I get around this? > > bruce > > On the contrary. It's saying you are trying to install 1.0.5 and you > already have 0.67-10. But you also have the 0.67-10 devel rpm and that > needs the 0.67-10 rpm. > > In other words, you have: > > gnumeric-0.67-10 > gnumeric-devel-0.67-10 > > You want to upgrade with: > > gnumeric-1.0.5 > > It won't let you because the devel version needs the same version. Since > you aren't uninstalling it, it would be left behind. It isn't consistent > with the new rpm for gnumeric and generates an error saying so. > > You have two options. you can either try to find gnumeric-devel-1.0.5 > and upgrade that at the same time, or you can uninstall gnumeric-devel > and then upgrade gnumeric. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
