Re: Problems upgrading XFREE86

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From: Geoffrey D. Bennett
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 00:00

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David Egan (mde999@animfg.com.au) wrote:

: I am using the command rpm -U *.rpm, and it churns away at the hard
: disk and eventually comes back with the message :

: failed dependencies:
: 	libtcl.so is needed by XFree86-XF86Setup-3.2.1
: 	libtk.so is needed by XFree86-XF86Setup-3.2.1

There was a small buglet in that package's configuration.  libtcl and
libtk aren't really needed.  Use the '--nodeps' switch to get rpm to
ignore the failed dependencies.

Best regards,
-- 
Geoffrey D. Bennett (geoffrey@netcraft.com.au)
Computer Systems Manager, NetCraft Australia
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
Red Hat Linux Resellers: http://www.netcraft.com.au/redhat/

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