hi try rpm -ivh, it use to work when you want to versions of same package installed. Sometimes there will be a confilct somewere but I usually ignore that and do --force to. /D > Från: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> > Till: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Rubrik: gnome-vfs2 and howl > Datum: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:39:44 +0800 > Hi All, > > I just tried upgrading my version of howl to the latest 0.9.8 by > downloading the source and the current SRPM, replacing the appropriate > lines and recompiling. All went well but the gnome-vfs2 had a > dependancy on libhowl-0.9.6.so.1 > > So downloaded the SRPM for that to see if it was in there or a compile > time dep. Its seems its the later as the spec file specificly mentions > the >= howl and the associated packages. If I do a 'rpm -q --requires > gnome-vfs2' the specific library is mentioned. > > [root@morpheus i386]# rpm -Uvh howl-0.9.8-1.FC3.i386.rpm > howl-devel-0.9.8-1.FC3.i386.rpm howl-libs-0.9.8-1.FC3.i386.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > libhowl-0.9.6.so.1 is needed by (installed) gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.i386 > > So my question is should I be able to upgrade howl to a later version > of is gnome-vfs2 dependant on that particular version. If I should be > able to should I bugzilla it? I did a quick search and found a similar > problems with gamin at bug #140679 but nothing specific to howl. > > I want a version later than 0.9.6 to fix a problem that shows up in > gnomemeeting 1.2.0. For the moment I have just upgraded with a > --nodeps, not sure what havoc it'll cause with gnome-vf2 but for the > moment aren't actually running X on this box. > > Cheers > Pete > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list"; TARGET="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</A> 10 Gigabyte Mailbox - mail.spray.se
