Re: GLIB / Pango install

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Andreas Hagele wrote:
> Russell,
>
> running
> rpm -i glib3-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm
> produces:
> 	file /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 from install of glib2-2.4.2-1 conflicts with
> file from package glib2-2.2.1-1
> 	file /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 from install of glib2-2.4.2-1 conflicts
> with file from package glib2-2.2.1-1
> 	file /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 from install of glib2-2.4.2-1 conflicts
> with file from package glib2-2.2.1-1
> 	file /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 from install of glib2-2.4.2-1 conflicts
> with file from package glib2-2.2.1-1
> running
> rpm -U glib3-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm
> produces:
> error: Failed dependencies:
> 	glib2 = 2.2.1 is needed by (installed) glib2-devel-2.2.1-1
>
> so either way does not work. Why not?
>
> Drives me spares this thing.
> I think I'll give up on gimp 2
>
> Andreas

I haven't tackled rpms for a long time. Maybe the old packages should
be uninstalled first. Doesn't rpm have a force option?