Hi all. My question is: is there a way to change the dependencies an RPM requires? The reason I ask is because I'm trying to install winex from the suse wine rack, and I have fedora core 3. I got it to work in fedora core 2 simply by using --nodeps. I can still do this in fedora core 3, however, later on when I'm solving another fedora/winex issue where I need to disable prelinking and run "prelink ua", it runs into "can't find dependency" issues.

Basically, it simply asks for "python-gtk" and "python-gnome" when installing. FC3 appearently already has these, they're just named "pygtk" and gnome-python", respectfully. So all i need to know is, is there a way I can edit the RPM itself, or run the rpm command, so that it uses "pygtk" and "gnome-python" in place of python-gtk" and "python-gnome"?

Thanks in advance,

What about a tar.gz install?

Possible help here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=163038

You can create symbolic link with the name required by the rpm pointing to the correct library using the ln command. Use man ln for more information.

For eg. I have a library named "libsome.so.0" on my system and the dependency asks for "libsomethingalias.so.0" which is another name for the existing library.

So I create a link using:
Where libsome.so.0 is the "target" and libsomethingalias.so.0 is the name of the link created which will point to the original libsome.so.0.
This way you won't need to change any dependencies.

In case you are absolutely sure that all dependencies are fulfilled, then you can use the

rpm --force

option or the

rpm --nodeps

options.

I think you're on to some thing Harishankar; however, where do I place these symbolic links? I can create them, but it only puts a link in whatever folder I'm in at the time, and putting them in the folder with the RPM doesn't make it think those dependencies are aviable.

symbolic links could be the answers, or not. Some requires are on files; it'll be OK for those. Most requires are on provided features (by other RPM packages), and those can't be changed with symbolic links.

The "clean" solution is to take the SRPM, install it (rpm -i), cd into /usr/src/RPM, edit SPECS/thepackage.spec to make the requires correct, and then rebuilt the RPM with rpmbuild -bb SPECS/thepackage.spec.

Yves.

Sounds fair enough, but all I have is:
winex3-3.2-4.i586.rpm
from the SUSE wine rack CD

The wine rack also contains python-gnome and python-gtk rpms, but those conflict with the differently named instances of those libraries I already have.
Essentially, it just needs to install using librarys that are already there, but just named differently then it's expecting. I'd imagine there's a relatively strait-forward way to do this...?

(--nodeps installs the package, but later on it messes things up when I do prelink -ua (required for a FC winex fix). It also makes synaptec (apt-get) stop working until I remove the "broken package", so I figured I'd just do it right this time and figure out how to satisfy it's dependencies from the get-go)

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