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Installing multiple rpm's at once?



Brian J. Conway wrote:
>>However, if I try to install any one of them, it reports that I already
>>have to have one of the others. For instance, trying glibc-common
>>gives:
>>
>>[root at localhost src]# rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2.4-19.3.i386.rpm
>>error: failed dependencies:
>>        glibc < 2.2.4 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.4-19.3
>>        glibc-common = 2.2.2-10 is needed by glibc-2.2.2-10

Use the --nodeps option to force in the first one in the chain 
(glibc-common). Then you can put in the others normally. The mozilla 
RPMs (available on ftp.mozilla.org) have the same problem; all the 
auxiliary ones depend on the main one, so you have to force the main one in.





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