OpenOffice dependency problems (after upgrade to FC6?)

Kenny Gow kgfedora at swbell.net
Thu Nov 16 17:26:17 UTC 2006


Jacques B. wrote:
>> See what you have:
>>
>> $ rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' openoffice\*
>>
> 
> Interesting syntax.  I wasn't aware of that. I've always simply done
> 
> $rpm -qa | grep openoffice
> 
> It yields the same output in this case.  As always, more than one way
> to do things in Linux.  Glad Iearned a new one.
> 

Almost the same output. The second way doesn't show the "arch".

Knowing the arch is important sometimes, like when the FC6
install incorrectly gives you the i586 kernel instead of the
i686 kernel.

--Kenny




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