[Gllug] basic rpm problem.

[Vincent AE Scott]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, will wrote:

> $ rpm -U rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>  libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-27mdk
>  menu < 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk
> 
> so I did a search for libbz2.so.1 on rpmfind.net and did got the following
> message after trying to install the libbz2.s0.2 package:
> 
> $ rpm -U libbzip2_1-1.0.1-10mdk.i586.rpm
> 
> or
> 
> $ rpm -i libbzip2_1-1.0.1-10mdk.i586.rpm
> 
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: libbzip2_1-1.0.1-10mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed:
> 
> I seem to have got back to this chicken/egg situation again.  I am probably
> doing something wrong, but what?

are you nabbing the cooker / MDK8 packages?
sounds like you might be, have you searched for the MDK7.2 updates?  get
the latest versions of the packages you want from there first.

package dependencies can be a nightmare, especially when the package
management software is in a package under the package management system.



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