amarok installation & yum

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 00:46 -0800, James T. Carver wrote:
> I tried the same thing, with no success at all I ended up installing the extra 
> packages with rpm and telling it to ignore the deps and force the 
> installation. every time I used yum to install anything it would fail and 
> give me the same anal messages so I just quit using it at all. just download 
> the packages and install them with rpm or kpackage, and it will save you some 
> time and frustration.

"I ended up installing the extra packages with rpm and telling it to
ignore the deps and force the installation" is probably the reason why
you're having problems with dependencies ever since. Forcing
installations is almost never the right thing to do. Actually resolving
the dependency issues (which admittedly is not easy on occasions) is far
better in the long run.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>