[plug] KDE 2.2 install problem

[Tony Clark]

On Tuesday 11 September 2001 07:01, Aunty Jack wrote:
> G'day everyone
>
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-kate-2.2-2
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-konqueror-2.2-2
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-noatun-2.2-2
.
.
.
.
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdepim-pilot-2.2-1
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdesdk-2.2-1
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdetoys-2.2-1
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeutils-2.2-2
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdevelop-2.0-1
>
> Assuming that rpm had simply not bothered to exhaustively (recursively ?)
> untangle all the dependencies for the whole list of files, i thought ". .
> hmmm .. everything's supposed to be there. i'll force the issue and see
> what happens . ." and ran:
> 	cd /home/aunty/download/kde-2.2
> 	rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *.rpm
>

Install the dependencies that it failed on and all should start working again 
with a bit of luck.  You probably don't need all the development packages 
which may make things a little easier to work out what at minimum you need.  
Use the latest packages when installing failed dependencies.

-- 
Tony Clark
ASIC, FGPA and Digital Design
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