ghostscript

[Jordan Katz]

"Alex Morris" <egore100@hotmail.com> writes:

[snip]
> [root@egore RPMS]# rpm -i ghostscript-5.10-17mdk.i586.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>  ghostscript-fonts is needed by ghostscript-5.10-17mdk
> [root@egore RPMS]# rpm -i ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk.noarch.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>  ghostscript is needed by ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk
> [root@egore RPMS]#

In the future, use -Uvh instead of -i when installing rpms.

> So, apparently, I need to install ghostscript-fonts before
> ghostscript.  However, ghostscript-fonts requires ghostscript.  WTF?
> I figured that this might be because of the old RPM that I'm using,
> so I downloaded the ghostscript-5.5*.rpm and the corresponding
> ghostscript-fonts-5.5*.rpm .  I got the exact same errors when
> installing these.

Try passing the -f (force) switch to rpm when installing the
ghostscript package.  I've had to do this a couple of times when I had
all the necessary dependencies of a certain package, but rpm wouldn't
believe me. 

By the way, I'm not hardly an expert on rpm, so take this advice with a grain
of salt.  It worked for me.
-- 
Jordan Katz <katz@underlevel.net>