[PLUG] RPM questions

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Jun 2 22:49:50 UTC 2002


On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Keith Morse wrote:

> Only if they are installed via rpm.  For packages that are reluctant to 
> install due to dependency issues, check out the 'force' and 'nodeps' 
> options with rpm.  Alternatively to the 'compile tarball' route,  use some 
> non-official rpm choices.

  I have been using '--nodeps' once I check that the required libs are
present. I just wondered if there's a way of making the rpm db aware of a
non-rpm-installed library. You confirmed that the answer is, "no".

Thanks,

Rich





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