RPM release differences for same GC version [WAS: Help menu]
Stewart V. Wright
svwright+lists at amtp.liv.ac.uk
Fri Jul 16 10:22:50 EDT 2004
G'day Jean-David,
* Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer at exit109.com> [040716 14:43]:
> I guess this is not true of all systems or, at least, all gnucash rpms.
...Great. Dependency hell here we come!
I didn't realise that there was competing packaging going on out
there. (I roll my own from the tar ball.)
> I did rpm -q gnucash-docs and it proclaimed the package was not installed.
>
> I next I blindly tried to download the rpm cited and then do an
> rpm -Uvh gnucash-docs-1.8.4-1.i386.rpm
> and got a zillion complaints about conflicts. I picked out one of the
> files it complained about and did an
> rpm -qf [filename]
> and it announced all this stuff was part of gnucash-1.8.8-0.9 already
> installed on my system.
(I will avoid the standard "use 1.8.9, it's got bug fixes"
comment... *Grin*)
Where did you get your rpm from? Is this the standard RHEL/Fedora
release?
Does someone who is actually involved in those releases need to chase
this up? i.e. Notting???
Cheers,
S.
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