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["K.R. Foley" <kr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Arnold wrote:
> I am using SLED SP1 and pidgin 2.2.1 and i want to install pidgin 2.3.
> So, i found pidgin 2.3 on benjiweber search. I went to install pidgin
> 2.3 and got dependency error:
>  rpm -Uvh pidgin-2.3.0-3.1.i586.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libpurple = 2.3.0 is needed by pidgin-2.3.0-3.1.i586
>
> So, i got libpurple 2.3 from benjiweber search and tryied to install it
> and got  dependency error :
> rpm -Uvh libpurple-2.3.0-3.1.i586.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libpurple = 2.2.1 is needed by (installed) pidgin-2.2.1-7.1.i586
>
> This seems to be a dependency loop? How do i install pidgin 2.3 and
> libpurple 2.3?

It's not a dependency loop. It is just that the old version of pidgin
wants the old version of libpurple. You might be able to fix this by
uninstalling pidgin and then upgrading libpurple. Or you could end up
with more dependency issues.

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   kr
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