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Re: Oracle 9i on Mandrake 10 failure

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:58:57 +0200
Message-ID: <cg249s$g9k$1@news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>


Norman Dunbar wrote:

> In article <cfv93t$1k5$1_at_news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>,
> fvanbortel_at_netscape.net says...
>
>

>>Norm - just downgrade for the duration of the installation; after
>>relinking you can upgrade glibc again.
>>

>
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> the problem is, it won't let me downgrade - dependency hell. You can't
> downgrade this version of glibc because there is some software (open
> Office etc) that needs it.
>
> I suspect there's a manual force downgrade option that I haven't yet
> found. Must try using the command line again :o)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>
> PS. I tried this on Mandrake 9.x (9.2 probably) to get Oracle 9iR2
> installed, but no joy. In the end, I downgraded Mandrake to 8.0,
> installed 9i and upgraded Mandrake again. All is well - until I have to
> relink Oracle :o)
>

Norm,

not familiar with Mandrake, but rpm has a --force option... I have no idea whther Mandrake 9 uses rpm by now, but surely there must be "ignore dependencies" options (--nodeps, --force, --ignore, or something the like)

-- 

Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Thu Aug 19 2004 - 06:58:57 CDT

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