7 Nov
2002
7 Nov
'02
14:23
On Thursday 07 November 2002 15.21, James Ogley wrote:
You can force your rpms to install without dependency checks like this: rpm -Uhv <package name>.rpm --nodeps --force
And you can then spend the next 2 days griping that things don't work.
*Never* use nodeps, unless you *know* that the dependency a package says it's failing on is provided by another package.
And furthermore, never use --force *at all*. If you have to, there's something badly wrong with the rpm Anders