Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 April 2004 17.14, S.R.Glasoe wrote:
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> > > >   kdegraphics3-scan: Depends: ocrad but it is not installable
> > > >                      Depends: libexif.so.9 but it is not
> > > > installable E: Broken packages
> > > > linux:/ #
> > > >
> > > > Bob S.
> > >
> > > Install libexif-0.5.12-27.i586.rpm from your DVD/CD.
> >
> > Stan,
> > I have a newer version of libexif. Are you saying delete the newer
> > version and install the older one?
> >
> > Richard,
> > I checked out those archives. Guess this one just has to be waited out?
> >
> > Bob S.
>
> Bob,
>
> You could try that or create symbolic links of the old file names to the
> new file names.

rpm doesn't care about what you have on your hard drive, only about what you 
have in the rpm database. You can have the older version installed from 
source, it may work with the newer driver, you may have some other compatible 
piece of software installed, rpm won't know or care

Two ways around it, use --nodeps to install (or whatever means apt has to 
invoke --nodeps) or create a fake rpm that "provides" the needed file