Re: gnewbie: gnome 1.2 from rpm's and libjpeg.so.6

[Derek Fountain <fountai hursley ibm com>]

> Before installation in the first place rpm doesn't look for
> files in the file system but for entries in its database.
> So in your case rpm can't find an entry in the rpm database
> saying that the required libjpeg.so.6 is installed on your
> system. The mere existence of libjpeg.so.6 on your HD doesn't
> help much. You have two choices:
> 
> a) installing the gnome rpms with option --nodeps
>    (not recommended)

That's not recommended, but it's what I did, and it worked
fine for me on 3 SuSE-6.4 systems.

YMMV.

> > I'm _really_ keen to get Gnome 1.2 on my system:
> >
> > I'm running suse 6.4 and trying to install gnome 1.2 by hand from the .rpm's
> >
> > i'm getting errors re missing libjpeg.so.6.