Upgrading rpm packages

[Rodney Kanno]

Hi,

So that's the problem....thanks for you explanation, that makes things a lot 
clearer for me. I think I will search for the mandrake version and not mess 
up the rpmdb. 

Thanks,
Rodney


On Wednesday 04 July 2001 19:33, you wrote:
> > I am trying to upgrade my rpm package ' libmng1-1.0.0-2mdk ' with package
> > ' libmng-1.0.1-1.i686.rpm ' using ' rpm -U libmng-1.0.1-1.i686.rpm ' but
> > i get an error message saying
> >
> > "file /usr/lib/libmng.so.1.0.0 from install of libmng-1.0.1-1 conflicts
> > with file from package libmng1-1.0.0-2mdk"
>
> You are trying to mix rpm packages from different distributions.  Don't do
> that. My guess is your new package is from Polish'd Linux Distribution and
> your old one is from Mandrake.  In this case I think you would be pretty
> safe by installing it (not upgrading it), but that's a really good way to
> get an inconsistant rpmdb and it can become a big mess to deal with.  You
> would be better off tracking down the rpm for your distro.  If you are
> using Mandrake (which I think you are), then it seems that an updated rpm
> hasn't made it's way into cooker yet.  It seems that your only option is
> two either create your own Mandrake friendly RPM (meaning changing the
> packages internal name to libmng1 instead of libmng) or force install the
> one you have:
>
> # rpm -ivh libmng-1.0.1-1.i686.rpm --force --nodeps
>
> This will install (i) libmng on your system, but keep libmng1 around too
> (except for where the files conflict), so you can safely install packages
> that depend on libmng1 and packages which depend on libmng (which would be
> bad beacuse they wouldn't be mandrake specific packages).  While it's
> installing, it will display the package name (v) and give a little progress
> meter with hash marks (h).
>
> --Ray
>
>
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