[Gllug] Installing Linux software (Part II)

Wed Dec 12 15:08:45 UTC 2001

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 14:16, you wrote:
> I go off to www.rpmfind.net and I enter "gal.so.18" as my search,
> download the indicated GNOME Application Support Libraries
> (gal-0.18.1-1i386.rpm) and rerun the CL "rpm -Uvh
> abiword-0.9.5-16.rpm" ... same dependency errors. I try another of
> the indicated libraries and the same ... HELP!
You have to INSTALL the gal rpm before installing AbiWord. That way 
rpm has it in its database as installed and the dependency will not 
be wrong. Or try installing both at the same time which should also 
work... rpm -Uvh Abiword*.rpm gal*.rpm
But this wont fix the other two dependencies :)
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