Re: [Evolution] "Could not create composer window" - Evo 0.8

[Garrett Mickelson <garrett penguincomputing com>]

Ya, good point. I used force because I had already installed many of
these exact rpm's when Evo 0.8 was first released. Using --force, i just
replaced all the rpm's already installed and installed those that needed
updating. It was the lazy, quick, down and dirty way to get them
installed. It would have been much cleaner obviously, had I uninstalled
all Evo packages first, but time was a constraint.

Garrett Mickelson

On 19 Dec 2000 10:52:02 -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2000 06:46:56 -0800, Garrett Mickelson wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > You should dowload the latest rpm's from ftp.helixcode.com under
> > /pub/helix/evolution/distro/RedHat-6/. Dump them into your
> > /var/cache/helix-installer directory and run rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm. The
> > problem is one of the packages was faulty at the time of release, and
> > has since been updated.
>
> I doubt that --force is necessary, and recomending it can easily get
> people into trouble.  --force can corrupt the integrity of the RPM
> Database, wreaking all kinds of havoc when you try to install new
> packages, or remove old ones.  If people come back with problems, and
> --force is the right solution (--oldpackage or the others won't work)
> then please suggest it.  Thanks,
>
>     Greg
>
>
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