My downloaded printer driver wants
dependency libtcl8.3.so. My Tcl/Tk has
libtcl8.4.so which I assume is backward
compatible. How can I tell the rpm to use
the one I have? BTW Yast won't load it
either. TIA, mike

Use the
--force
option.

But you must be sure that 8.4 is backward compatible.

Can you suggest a way to verify the backward compatibility of libtcl8.4.so with libtcl8.3.so. Thanks again, mike

Besides feeding a searchengine some keywords? No, I can't :-)

http://www.tcl.tk/
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.3.html
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html

druuna,

Thanks again. I did find the tcl.tk site but missed the 8.3 & 8.4 sites. Please endure my inexperience. 8.4 is listed as 'highly compatible with 8.3. If I install with the --nodeps or --force option will the driver be able to find the lib with a different ver number? Going back to the beginning, I uninstalled the original driver and then tried to install the new one because they didn't have similar file names although they are drivers for the same printer. Could I have used the U option and possibly let rpm retain the old lib? If so, I'll reinstall the old driver and start over. Thanks again for your help and patience, mike

the change in version number shouldn't matter. my system has 8,3:

/usr/lib/libtcl.so -> /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so
/usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so

and any program using it, is most likely to use just libtcl.so and not knw any difference. if it does whoever, just try creating a symlink from libtcl8.4.so to libtcl8.3.so, and if it is as compatible as it say, you should be fine.

I'm not really comfortable installing with --force or --nodeps options. Could you give me the syntax to properly link the files so rpm can install without dependency error messages? libtcl8.4.so lives in /usr/lib/. Thanks to all for your help and forebearance.