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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Any answers for this dummy?
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2005-01-30 21:43:41
Message-ID: 41FD550D.8070804 () acm ! org
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Logan Anderson wrote:
> I have a motto that if it aint broke you can't fix it, not to be 
> confused with if it aint boke don't fix it. With that in mind, maybe 
> someone has some answers for me. I have mandrake 10.1 and I was running 
> KDE. I tried to install the program airsnort (wireless cracker) so I 
> could mess with my father in law a little. It came up and said I needed 
> a newer version of GTK (GTK 2.0 I think). So I started trying to install 
> different RPM's to get it working. Well several of them said they were 
> conflicting or missing dependencies and so I just started doing rpm -i 
> --force. 

The problem is that you used the wrong command:

	rpm -i <package>.rpm

rather than:

	rpm -U <package>.rpm

NEVER use "-i" unless you are absolutely sure of what you are doing. 
You say that there were "missing dependencies" but this can't be the 
case since "--force" won't install or upgrade a package with missing 
dependencies.  Did you also use: "--nodeps"?

What you did by using "-i --force" was to install one package on top of 
another without removing the older one.

You can try doing the same packages again with:

	rpm -U --force <package>.rpm

and it might fix the problem.  You should probably try:

	rpm -Uvh <package>.rpm

first to make sure that the package is already installed and then add: 
"--force" to force the upgrade.

-- 
JRT
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