[ale] openssl dependency hell

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 14 March 2003 02:20 pm, Jim wrote:
> "I started out doing some simple upgrades..." So begins the story of man
> RPM nightmares. Among the many libraries required to do the upgrades is
> libssl.so.4 and libcrypto.so.4. Fair enough. Those are in
> openssl-0.9.7a-1.i386.rpm and the corresponding devel package. But if I
> install that, I'm losing libssl.so.2 and libcrypto.so.2 and dozens of
> packages on my system depend on those libraries. In fact, some of those
> packages depending on *.so.2 were just downloaded from Rawhide this
> week. So, how do I make the upgrade without wrecking and rebuilding half
> of the stuff on my box? This is a RedHat 7.3 box with so many upgrades
> that it is more like 8.0, but that hasn't been a problem up until now.

Can they be installed instead of upgraded?  They look like they shouldn't 
clash.

Try using "rpm -ivh file.rpm " instead of "rpm -Uvh file.rpm".

--Michae
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