[Wylug-help] rpm install data

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Don Magee wrote:

> I am trying to install vlc on a 64 bit maching using yum. But it fails on 
> some of the dependencies. So I have built the missing items from source. But 
> yum still thinks that they aren't there.
>
> Anyone know how to hack the rpm data so that yum/rpm knows that packages 
> built from source are available?

If you had the correct rpm installed, yum should see it.  Are you sure the
arch of all the required packages are as you expect.

rpm -q --qf %{NAME}-%{ARCH}\\n <packagename>

should show you for sure.

jh

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