[CLUE-Tech] upgrading rpm

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:13:59 -0800 (PST)
Carl Schelin wrote:

> Now I'm in the area where there's a problem. I have
> the current rpms but they won't upgrade even with
> --force. The rpm.org website says that --force will
> work with everything unless there's a dependancy.
> There's no reference in the --upgrade pages on what to
> do in this case.

If you want rpm to ignore dependencies, then the flag is --nodeps.

If you would post the command line you use, and any error messages, that
would help.

jed
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