[Gllug] RPM problem

[Karanbir Singh]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>>>Actually 
>>> rpm -i --force clamav-server-0.87.1-1.i386.rpm
>>>
>>>fixed it
>>>
>>
>>Unless you really really know what you are doing, you should never need 
>>to use --nodeps and/or --force options. and in this case, you should 
>>have followed what Martin said and tried a rpm -e clamav-server ( which 
>>would have most likely given you a list of other packages that depend on 
>>clamav-server )
>>
>>btw, what distro are you doing this on ? I am sure there is a repository 
> 
> 
> There is. The problem was an interrupted installation. I had fetched the
> rpms via yum
> 

yum lets you do local file updates... just drop the rpms' you need to 
update in a directory and 'yum localupdate *.rpm'

or you can use the 'yum localinstall' option, if the packages were never 
installed previously.

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