Re: Upgrade

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Mihai Gheorghiu wrote:

> [root@localhost pg]# rpm -U --force postgresql*
> error: failed dependencies:
>         postgresql = 7.0.3 is needed by postgresql-python-7.0.3-8
>
> Same without --force.
>
> What would you suggest :-) Thanks in advance.

  Two things:

  1) Don't use the '--force' option except as a last resort. 99.44% of the
time you don't need it. I've used '--nodeps' when the dependency is there
but not visible to the package database.

  2) As root, type 'rpm -e postgresql-python-7.0.8-8' and get rid of the
offender.

  Then do 'rpm -Uvh postgresql-*'. The 'v' is for verbose (gives you
messages about progress or the lack thereof) and the 'h' is for hashmarks
that illustrate progress.

Good luck!

Rich

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