On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 15:10, Patrick Nelson wrote: > FC1 Up2date... > > I was wanting to load up the latest rpm from subversion.tigris.org and > they have rpms there for FC1. But, when I went to install them (just > the basic to start with -> apr, apr-util, neon, and subversion), I get > dependency problems. As I tried to update apr and apr-util but find > that these need db42: > > error: Failed dependencies: > db42-devel is needed by apr-util-devel-0.9.5-0.4 > libdb-4.2.so is needed by apr-util-0.9.5-0.4 > > So I tried to rpm -Uvh db42 rpm and also rpm -ivh it but: > It needed db42-devel not db42 for the devel package but I am not sure where the libdb-4.2.so comes from > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > -file /usr/include/db4/db.h from install of db42-devel-4.2.52-0.1 > conflicts with file from package db4-devel-4.1.25-14 > -file /usr/include/db4/db_185.h from install of db42-devel-4.2.52-0.1 > conflicts with file from package db4-devel-4.1.25-14 > -file /usr/include/db4/db_cxx.h from install of db42-devel-4.2.52-0.1 > conflicts with file from package db4-devel-4.1.25-14 > -file /usr/lib/libdb.so from install of db42-devel-4.2.52-0.1 > conflicts with file from package db4-devel-4.1.25-14 > ..... > > So if both of these (-Uvh and -ivh) result in a conflict, how do I > install this db42 package? I think this is the Sleepy Cat DB so, if > there is a way to install it is this going to impact other apps that > utilize the db app? I did try to rpm -ev but of course a lot of things > rely on the db4 package. Anyone have any suggestions? > Try using "yum update <package> to update a specific package. It handles the dependencies for you. "yum install <package>" does the same for installing new packages. Yes, rpm checks all that depend on the package being changed and will warn you and prevent the update/install until dependencies are resolved or you tell it to ignore the dependencies (NOT recommended). > TIA >
