[Wylug-help] rpm install data

[Don Magee]

Finally managed to get it to install but I'm not quite sure what it was
that fixed the problem. Thanks for the input guys.


Don Magee


John Hodrien wrote:
> 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
>