Re: Major newbie install question

[Eric Smith <eric brouhaha com>]

On March 5, Craig wrote:
> I would love anyone that could answer this for me. Basically I am trying to 
> install gnome 1.0 (downloaded today) to a fresh install of redhat 5.2 on my 
> laptop. 
>
> I am following all the instructions that I can find, install the 3 packages 
> that it requires, then issue a rpm -Uvh *rpm to install gnome. 
>
> Then I see a screenfull of failed dependency messages talking about 
> libglib.so.1 and gtk+ and libgdk.so.1. All these libraries exist in 
> /usr/lib 

The problem is that you have earlier versions of those libraries installed,
and some of your software depends on them.  If you do an "rpm -U", it will try
to remove them.  An "rpm -i" will install the new libraries, but leave the old
ones in place so that the applications that use them are not disrupted.

I did the following:

  rpm -i gtk+-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm glib-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
  rpm -i --force glib-devel-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
  rm gtk+-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm glib-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm glib-devel-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
  rpm -Uvh *.rpm

And everything installed, albeit with a few warnings about "directory not
empty".

Good luck!
Eric