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XFree86-4.0 rpm installation

Post by Silviu Minu » Thu, 18 May 2000 04:00:00



I'm trying to satisfy the dependencies for XFree86-4.0. Among many other
things, it requires libncurses.so.5.
However, trying to install ncurses-5 breaks dependencies for a whole
bunch of other packages, most notably util-linux, which provides crucial
system programs, such as login and fdisk. These packages require
ncurses-4.x.

How does one go about this? Would bad things happen to me if I force
ncurses-5? If it wasn't for the login program, I'd give it a try myself.
Has anybody tried this?

I'm running RedHat6.0 (but now it is close to 6.2 probably, due to
continuous upgrades that I make). Oh, did I mention it's all about rpms?

 
 
 
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XFree86-4.0 rpm installation

Post by Sam E. Trenhol » Thu, 18 May 2000 04:00:00


Quote:>I'm running RedHat6.0 (but now it is close to 6.2 probably, due to
>continuous upgrades that I make). Oh, did I mention it's all about rpms?

rpm --nodeps foo.i386.rpm

- Sam

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XFree86-4.0 rpm installation

Post by Silviu D Minu » Thu, 18 May 2000 04:00:00


Thanks!
My question wasn't an rpm question though. I know about --nodeps. I was
wondering what would happen if I did break the dependencies. Did anyone try
to run util-linux with ncurses-5? Would that ruin the whole system?

> >I'm running RedHat6.0 (but now it is close to 6.2 probably, due to
> >continuous upgrades that I make). Oh, did I mention it's all about rpms?

> rpm --nodeps foo.i386.rpm

> - Sam

> --
> Please post, and not email, questions you have about my answers
> Go to http://samiam.org/cgi-bin/mailme to get my email address

 
 
 
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