Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

On 03/16/2004 02:14 PM, Bob S. wrote:

> Running SuSE 8.2 
Same here.

> Don't know why this is happening. 
Packaging changes.

> Downloaded a bunch of files. 
If those packages got downloaded, install them manually from the command 
line, i.e. rpm -Uvh --replacefiles xxx.rpm.  You will need the 
replacegiles switch to overwrite a few files that used to be provided by 
different packages.  After this apt will be happy.

> One was for kdebase3-devel-3.2.1-11, and the other 
> is for susewm.  So I did an rpm -e for the kdebase-devel package, 
Not necessary.

> Tried to do the same with the susewm package but 
> ran into tons of dependencies. 
Don't remove this package.  You would want the newer versions of the 
particular files the newer package supplies.

> Thus, I am calling upon the experts. 
Since none of those have answered yet, I offer this advice, having 
already done this.

> error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
>        susewm is needed by susewm-kcmyast-3.6.0-232
>        susewm is needed by kdebase3-SuSE-8.2-112
>
> (then I tried to remove some of the dependencies)
>  
You are in danger of causing yourself many wasted hours of work.

> So I gave up. Anyone tell me why I am having this problem??
Some files that are supplied by a different package are being updated by 
a different package, thus the rpm error.  You would need to use the 
replacefiles switch to tell rpm that it is OK to replace the files in 
question from the different package.  This could be looked at as a 
packaging error, but whatever the reason, it isn't fatal.  HTH

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