i'm trying to upgrade some programs on my RedHat 7.3 system using rpm packages, but am having a problem with failed dependencies.
when trying to upgrade to libpng-1.2.2.8, there are hundreds of programs that depend on the currently installed version(1.0.12). In theory I guess I could upgrade all these programs, but I'm wondering if there is a way a way of getting rpm to upgrade libpng (or any other package) without breaking other applications that depend on the current version.
The documentation on
www.rpm.org/max-rpm doesn't seem to cover this (at least not as far as I can tell).