Here's what I do - rpm -ihv --force --nodeps , It doesn't check for dependancies/conflicts etc, but it will install the rpm. If you know the conflicts that come up don't matter it's safe to use. -dallas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Parrish" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:56 AM Subject: RPM help please > Okay without saying "carl you should use apt-get" can someone help me > with rpm? I'm trying to get gnucash installed its saying I need > libguile.so.9 so I went to rpmfind and see that that's part of the > guile-1.4 rpm. I did a rpm -q on guile and see that I have > guile-1.3.4-16 installed so I do rpm -U guile-1.4 and it > comes back with a list of dependences that need guile-1.3 to run. It was > my understanding that the -U switch was to Upgrade the package so that > all the programs depending on the old packetage could still run. Up > until this point the steps I've taken so far either worked or I just > gave up and installed from source but I've decided now to really > understand RPM any tricks I should try that I haven't? Any good > "detailed" info on RPM? I'm looking for something with a bit more > explanation than the man page. > > Thanks, > > Carl P. > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss