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Beartooth
beartooth at adelphia.net
Fri Mar 10 19:53:53 UTC 2006
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:47:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
[...]
>> rpm -Uvh \
>> http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc4/i386/RPMS.dries/
>>rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm
>>
>
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> package rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf is already installed
>
> It's Friday night, and all sensible people stop trying to be intelligent, and
> grab a bottle instead.
One other trick, that sometimes works and is easier when it does. When you
do the rpm and get a dependency failure -- say "requires ... X ... Y ...
Z," try doing "yum install X Y Z" and then (assuming yum success) arrowing
up to do the rpm again. Usually works with Pine from UW, for instance.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : Fedora Core 4 [etc]
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.
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