On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> I'm trying to install a GUI e-mail package called xfmail. When I ran
> RPM I got an error message that the package needs xforms > 0.88 so I
> found it, downloaded, opened the tar file, and ran **make install**
> according to the directions in the README file. But RPM still gives
> the same error message. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here
> and/or what to look for?
my _guess_ would be that you forgot soemthing about RPM - it cannot know
about packages that you install in the system without using RPM. e.g. - if
you install something from sources, it won't go into the RPM database
(unless you installed an SRPM - source RPM, or created an RPM package out
of the resuting binary yourself).
solutions:
1. find this version of xform in RPM and install that.
2. tell RPM to ignore depedencies while installing xfmail. ofcourse, this
means breaking your RPM database, and making it harder to maintain
applications with RPM in the future.
note: i don't use RPM myself, so i might as well be wrong.
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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