[ILUG] Linux Newbie - Basic Question RPM

[John P. Looney]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 10:44:46AM -0000, Justin MacCarthy mentioned:
>  Hi, very simple question,but couldn't find an answer in the MAN pages...
> 
> I'm new to RPM, and I was trying to install a package yesterday.
> 
> When I ran rpm -i <package> I got a a message telling me that I was missing
> dependencies
> ,ld-linux.os.2  and a load of others. Do I need to install other packages
> first, ie the packages which contain these libs ????? If so how can I find
> out which packages contain these libs????

 Looks like your RPM database is trashed.

 Either mourn the loss, and use "rpm --nodeps -i..." in future, or 

 rpm --rebuild 

 often fixes it.

Kate

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