[svlug] Re: Using RPM

[Dave Zarzycki]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Eric Pretorious wrote:

> I can't upgrade glibc 2.1 to glibc 2.2 because it requires
> glibc-common 2.2 and I can't install glibc-common because it conflicts
> with glibc 2.1...

Does this not work:

rpm -U glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm

> Is this supposed to be so baffling?

No, but sometimes rpm isn't as smart as you or I might hope.

davez

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