On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:41 +0000, Will McDonald wrote:

On 24/11/05, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:

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There is a new "Managing Software with yum" guide that has been added to our documents section. http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/

Is it worth adding mention of the yum group commands?

It's in there: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/sn-managing-packages.html#sn...

Hi all,

I have a problem because I don't know how to manage RPMs.

I have a package installed with CentOS which is called "glib-1.2.10-15". I want now to install a software (not available with CentOS) which requires glib >= 2.0.

Well, I go then to the GTK site and took the last source tarball "glib-2.8.4-1.tar.gz". Then I used checkinstall to create the rpm file. The commands that I used with checkinstall are : ./configure make checkinstall (and choose all choices by default)

Well, I now have an rpm file "glib-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm".

And if I do rpm -Uvh glib-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm

The answer is :

error : libglib.1.2.so.0 is needed by (already installed) gtk+-1.2 libglib.1.2.so.0 is needed by (already installed) some other sofwares libglib.1.2.so.0 is needed by (already installed) some other softwares --- libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by (already installed) gtk+-1.2 libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by (already installed) some other sofwares libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by (already installed) some other sofwares

These files are certainly coming from glib-1.2 package. Is there a simple way to update this package ?

Because if i try to install gtk+-2.0, it complains about a missing dependency too. Can somebody show me the way which is right under my nose ?

Thank you,

Jean LEE

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On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:04:28PM +0100, Jean Lee wrote:

I have a package installed with CentOS which is called "glib-1.2.10-15". I want now to install a software (not available with CentOS) which requires glib >= 2.0.

Simply installing glib2, as suggested, won't work.

The package has a specific rpm requirement for the package named glib.

In a nutshell, if you want to keep your CentOS whole, you can't do it without rebuilding the package you want to install.

You can, of course, use "--nodeps" when installing the rpm, but that will leave your system inconsistent. Some people don't mind. I do.

And never, EVER use "--force".

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