Re: RPM update ???

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

> Here's my error message (running as root) after finally (many attempts 
> later) updating glibc to 2.1.3-22:
> 
> rpm -Uvh rpm-3.0.6-6x.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>          glibc >= 2.1.3 conflicts with rpm-3.0.6-6x
> 
> Am I in a Catch-22 here? You can't update A because B is already too 
> advanced, and you can't remove B because it's required to do any updating? 
> I tried skipping this one and going on to:
> 
> rpm -Uvh rpm-python-3.0.6-6x.i386.rpm
> rpm-python                  ##################################################
> 
> Success, right? Also got this one to go:
> 
> rpm -Uvh popt-1.5-7.6x.i386.rpm
> popt                        ##################################################
> 
> Moving along! So now:
> 
> rpm -Uvh rpm-build-3.0.6-6x.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>          rpm = 3.0.6 is needed by rpm-build-3.0.6-6x
> 
> Try again:
> 
> rpm -Uvh rpm-3.0-6.0.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>          librpm.so.0 is needed by rpm-build-3.0.4-0.48
>          librpm.so.0 is needed by rpm-python-3.0.6-6x
>          librpmbuild.so.0 is needed by rpm-build-3.0.4-0.48
> 
> At least the python upgrade shows up - I thought the RPM process was 
> supposed simplify and automate things! Anybody got an answer out there?

I haven't tried the specific update you are doing, but one thing I
notice is that you are updating one at a time.  You can update more
than one at once:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm 

or some such command.  rpm will allegedly handle all the dependancies
(not to say you won't get errors).

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