-----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:23 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] GTK?
You can force your rpms to install without dependency checks
On Thursday 07 November 2002 15.21, James Ogley wrote: 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
Well, I suppose we could all recompile our OS from scratch just because one program we want needs a couple of libs that nothing else on our system touches. Or I suppose installing the entire Gnome2 suite to take advantage of a single program is the safest choice. In this case, however, he wants to run one package, that package needs a few libs from GTK2. If nothing else on his sytem requires GTK2 and they're only being installed to support the package he does intend on running, I see nothing wrong with forcing rpm to install those libs without their dependencies.