ghostscript

[Alex Morris]

If I use any of these switches:

-fi
-if
-Uvhf
-fUvh
-f -Uvh
-f -i
-i -f

I get the error of:

rpm: unexpected query source

WTF?

- Alex Morris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jordan Katz" <katz@underlevel.net>
To: "Alex Morris" <egore100@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Greater Lansing Linux Users' Group" <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: ghostscript


> "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>
>
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