[svlug] Using RPM

Dan Copeland dcopeland at linuxfan.com
Thu Mar 15 16:53:01 PST 2001


On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 04:22:29PM -0800, Eric Pretorious wrote:

> # rpm -i glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2-12
> # rpm -U glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12


  This is generally what the 'force' option is for - making temporary
mismatches when you know you're going to fix them immediately.


							- Dan




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