[ale] rpm forcing...

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Mon May 27 15:13:59 EDT 2002


It's just a matter of using the "force" flag:

rpm -ivh --force package.rpm

Try it. The worst that can happen is the program will crash when you try to 
start it up.

On Monday 27 May 2002 02:51 pm, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> Am trying to install SNNS which requires both libm.so.5 and libc.so.5
>
> The install fails saying neither is not found
> but when I look in /lib
> I see that libm.so.5 (and libm.so.6) is linked to libm-2.2.5.so and
> libc.so.5 (and libc.so.6) is linked to libc-2.2.5.so
>
> How do I (or should I even?) force the rpm to install?
>
> I'd appreciate any help you can give...
>
> -Brian Dowd
> on Red Hat 7.3 which upgraded to libm.so.6 and libc.so.6
>
>
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