rpm and dependencies.

Dave Cross dave at dave.org.uk
Wed Mar 24 09:31:22 UTC 2004


On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:19:32AM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I am trying to install next level of sane backends but it fails due to
> dependencies problems. When I do:
> 
> rpm -Uvh sane-backends-1.0.13-2.athlon.rpm
> 
> I get:
> 
> warning: sane-backends-1.0.13-2.athlon.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> ID e01260f1
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         sane-backends = 1.0.12 is needed by (installed)
> sane-backends-devel-1.0.12-4
> 
> What can I do about that and why does it need something which *is*
> installed??

That's not what it's saying. It's saying that you can't overwrite
sane-backends-1.0.12 as it iw required by sane-backends-devel-1.0.12.

You probably need to get hold of sane-backends-devel-1.0.13 as well 
and install both packages in the same rpm command.

Dave...

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