[afnog] installing multiple rpms

Hervey Allen hervey at nsrc.org
Tue Jun 14 10:22:26 EAT 2005


Mukasa Assey Alfred wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Thanks for all your help,
> 
> It looks like everything will be ok soon.....
> 
> i ran the following command in the directory where i placed all the 105 
> rpms to test for dependencies;
> 
>> rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
> 
> 
> and i got the following output....
> 
> jack-devel is needed by arts-devel-1.4.1-3
>         libqscintilla.so.4 is needed by kdebindings3-python-3.4.1-3
>         povray is needed by kdegraphics3-3D-3.4.1-3
>         tiff is needed by kdegraphics3-fax-3.4.1-3
>         xpdf-config is needed by kdegraphics3-pdf-3.4.1-3
>         ocrad is needed by kdegraphics3-scan-3.4.1-3
>         libsvn_client-1.so.0 is needed by kdesdk3-3.4.1-3
>         libsvn_ra-1.so.0 is needed by kdesdk3-3.4.1-3
>         libsvn_subr-1.so.0 is needed by kdesdk3-3.4.1-3
>         valgrind >= 1.9.6 is needed by kdesdk3-profile-3.4.1-3
>         tidy is needed by kdewebdev3-3.4.1-3
>         kdelibs3 < 3.3.999 is needed by (installed)
> kplayer-0.5.3-1.guru.suse92.kde33
> 
> These are the dependancies iam now downloading...., after which i guess...
> 
>> rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm
> 
> 
> should do the trick.

Definitely run the test again once you get all this 
downloaded...

rpm only tests for one level of dependency. That is, for 
example:

"valgrind >= 1.9.6 is needed by kdesdk3-profile-3.4.1-3"

then, possibly, valgrind will require some package you do 
not have - etc...

Good luck!

Sincerely,
	- Hervey Allen


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