[TriLUG] Mozilla mess

Daniel Monjar Daniel.Monjar at na.biomerieux.com
Mon Sep 30 16:35:04 EDT 2002


of course I really meant... --nodeps is my friend.

I only use it when I know what I want to do... most of the times, again for 
me, rpms are a pain.  I picked Linux so long ago because I like to do stuff 
my way, not someone elses.  I like the untar/compile/install cycle for just 
that reason.  I prefer configuring the package the way I want it and 
putting it where I want it to go.  So I often do run into the scenario 
where a package is installed, just not via rpm.

--On Monday, September 30, 2002 3:47 PM -0400 Daniel Monjar 
<Daniel.Monjar at na.biomerieux.com> wrote:

> rpm --nodeps is your friend...
>
> --On Monday, September 30, 2002 3:36 PM -0400 Janyne Kizer
> <janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have a RedHat 7.2 box that has a big Mozilla mess on it.  I would like
>> to put Mozilla 1.1 on it.  It had the 0.9 version on it.  I could not
>> use the RPMs to install 1.1 because of conflicts with 0.9.  Then I went
>> to use the rpm -e option to remove the stuff.  I have it down to about
>> three RPMs installed but they are somehow crossreferencing each other.
>> I feel like I am in Mozilla hell!
>>
>> nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-47 cannot be removed because it is needed by
>> nautilus-1.0.4-47
>>
>> but
>>
>> nautilus-1.0.4-47 cannot be removed because it is needed by
>> nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-47
>>
>> this means that
>>
>> mozilla-0.9.9-12.7.2 cannot be removed because of a dependency on
>> nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-47
>>
>> and
>>
>> mozilla-nspr-0.9.9-12.7.2 cannot be removed because it is needed by both
>> mozilla and nautilus-mozilla
>>
>> I tried the --force command but to no avail.  I also tried to force and
>> upgrade but no luck there either.  Any tips would be appreciated
>> --
>>
>> Janyne Kizer
>> CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
>> Systems Programmer Administrator
>> NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
>> Extension Information Technology
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> Daniel Monjar
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> bioMérieux, Inc.
> Durham, NC US
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Daniel Monjar
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