Bug 75983

Summary:	need the --nodeps flag when installing rpm
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Developer Suite	Reporter:	Need Real Name <ahussain>
Component:	eclipse	Assignee:	Tom Tromey <tromey>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Tom Tromey <tromey>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	patrickm
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-15 15:18:32 UTC

Description of Problem:
Can't install rpm without --nodeps flag although have the jre in the required
location.

I have installed the following SDK and JRE:
IBMJava2-JRE-1.3.1-2.0.i386.rpm     
IBMJava2-SDK-1.3.1-2.0.i386.rpm

This created a directory called /opt/IBMJava2-131 dir which had a jre dir in it
too. 

installing the rpm using 
rpm -i  eclipse-linux-gtk-2.0.1-9.i386.rpm

causes the error:
error: failed dependencies:
	/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre is needed by eclipse-linux-gtk-2.0.1-9 
to appear.

So I renamed the java directory from /opt/IBMJava2-131 to /opt/IBMJava2-13. 
Now the jre is in the same path as above yet the same error is produced when
tryign to install. If I install with the --nodeps flag set, Eclipse installs and
runs fine.

Comment 1 Tom Tromey 2002-10-15 16:18:04 UTC

We standardized on the 1.3 JDK from IBM, not 1.3.1.
That is the root of the problem here.

Renaming the directory won't work, because dependencies
are based on the RPM that is installed, not the files that
exist -- that is, renaming the directory doesn't affect
what is recorded in the RPM database.

Could you uninstall 1.3.1 and install 1.3 instead?
If 1.3 isn't available, tell me and I'll reopen this report;
I think that would indicate it is time for all of us to upgrade.

Comment 2 David Lawrence 2003-12-11 19:23:25 UTC

Changing product to RHEL.

Comment 3 John Healy 2004-03-08 21:21:32 UTC

Moving from RHEL/3/Eclipse to Red Hat Developer Suite product.