[techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

[Beverly Guillermo]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:

> > > 	gtk+ >= 1.2.2 is needed by gnumeric-0.51-0.1
> > 
> > You need gtk+ that is above 1.2.2.  I would suggest upgrading to 1.2.7
>
> I upgraded that from source, and rpm doesn't believe it exists.  (I have
> glib and gtk 1.2.7, both upgraded from source.)

If you had gtk+ already installed using the rpm, it still thinks you have
the rpm version, not the source version.

>  
> > > 	libxml.so.0 is needed by gnorpm-0.8-5
> > 
> > You need the Gnome XML library.
> 
> I can't seem to upgrade that without package dependencies going barf (See
> my post 'mututally exclusive files?')

What you can do is install the files using the --nodeps option for rpm.
But then you could probably break some sort of important dependency...
it's why I dislike the rpm system entirely sometimes and the documentation
that doesn't tell you what you "really" need for the tarballs.

Beverly