[ale] rpm forcing...

[James P. Kinney III]

True, the worst it can do is fail to run. 

Try "rpm -q /lib/libm.so.5 --whatprovides" to find out what package
provided the linked file. If rpm returns a "Duh!?!" that it may have
been installed by a tarball. Try "rpm -ivh SNNS*.rpm --nodeps" to get it
to install and not gripe about libm.so.5.

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 15:13, Jim Philips wrote:
> It's just a matter of using the "force" flag:
> 
> rpm -ivh --force package.rpm
> 
> Try it. The worst that can happen is the program will crash when you try to 
> start it up.
> 
> On Monday 27 May 2002 02:51 pm, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> > Am trying to install SNNS which requires both libm.so.5 and libc.so.5
> >
> > The install fails saying neither is not found
> > but when I look in /lib
> > I see that libm.so.5 (and libm.so.6) is linked to libm-2.2.5.so and
> > libc.so.5 (and libc.so.6) is linked to libc-2.2.5.so
> >
> > How do I (or should I even?) force the rpm to install?
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help you can give...
> >
> > -Brian Dowd
> > on Red Hat 7.3 which upgraded to libm.so.6 and libc.so.6
> >
> >
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