[lug] RPM anomaly

[Hugh Brown]

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 15:14, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 12:08, Paul Hardiman wrote:
> > I am trying upgrade freetype on a rh 7.2 system.
> > 
> > rpm -Uvh freetype-2.0.9-2gtk.i386.rpm<CR>
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >     freetype = 2.0.3-7 is needed by freetype-devel-2.0.3-7
> > 
> > rpm -qa | grep -i freety<CR>
> > freetype-devel-2.0.3-7
> > freetype-2.0.3-7
> > 
> > It appears to me that I have the requisite package already installed.
> > Any idea what is going on?
> > Thanks

You don't have the requisite package installed.  It is complaining that
freetype-devel-2.0.3-7 requires freetype-2.0.3-7 and that if you upgrade
to freetype-2.0.9-2gtk, the dependency will be broken.  Ed has provided
the solutions.

Hugh


> > 
> > Regards,
> > Paul Hardiman
> > 303-581-0006
> 
> 
> You have two choices:
> 
>  1) un-install freetype-devel-2.0.3-7 (if you aren't a developer, 
>     you probably aren't using it),
> 
>  or
> 
>  2) simultaneously upgrade *both* packages (that is, both 
>     freetype-2.0.9-2gtk and freetype-2.0.9-2gtk-devel)
> 
> hth,
> Ed