[ILUG] rpm dependencies

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:30:01AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John P. Looney thought:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 06:06:14PM +0100, Padraig Brady mentioned:
> > OK I'm upgrading vorbis on my machine and I'm getting
> > the following:
> > 
> > # rpm -U libvorbis-* vorbis-tools-1.0-1.i386.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > 	libvorbisfile.so.0   is needed by SDL_mixer-1.2.0-4
> > 	libvorbisfile.so.0   is needed by xmms-1.2.5-7
> > 	libvorbisfile.so.0   is needed by tuxracer-0.61-5
> > 
> > This is because the new libvorbis.rpm only has libvorbisfile.so.3
> > So is this a problem in the other packages depending on
> > a specific version (libvorbisfile.so.0) rather than on the
> > generic libvorbis.so ?
> 
>  This is a pain. 
> 
>  The only way you can resolve this, to my knowledge is to download the
> original libvorbis rpm and the new one. Remove the old one, then do:
> 
>  rpm -Uvh libvorbis-*

What happens if you do

rpm -ivh libvorbis-<new.version>*

while the old version is still there?

Conor
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