Hi there everyone,
I'm using redhat 7.3 at the moment and am currently trying to install chkconfig-1.3.5-3.i386.rpm , but when I type this command:
rpm -Uvh chkconfig-1.3.5-3.i386.rpm
I get the following error:
error: failed dependencies:
chkconfig = 1.2.24 is needed by ntsysv-1.2.24-1
I have checked my machine, I have chkconfig 1.2.24 installed ! I can see chkconfig listed when I type rpm -qi chkconfig and the program is listed there. Can anyone help me?
go to an rpm site (like the one listed below) to address the dependency before continuing w/chkconfig v1.3.5-3
I have checked the dependencies list, but am trapped in a dead end, because the chkconfig-1.3.5 needs chkconfig-1.2, which is installed on my machine, but I don't understand why it can't find it.
Someone suggested to me that the chkconfig-1.3.5 might be from a different release of redhat and suggested that I try installing from the source rpm, but the source rpm requires newt-devel and it goes on and on.
I wonder if anyone else has any more ideas I can try out?
What this is all about is me trying to get postfix installed on my machine, but one of the dependencies for postfix is /usr/sbin/alternatives which I could only find in one of the provided files for chkconfig-1.3.5 so that's where it all started.
is a postfix rpm not available that as made for rh7.3? why not upgrade distros?
the reason I say this is cause the error message is saying that the rpm you're trying to install will overwrite files in the older chkconfig, which is listed as a dependency in another package, and so it's wanting you to now that the pacakge that depends on it could maybe malfunction if you do upgrade chkconfig, you can always just --force it, but have another RPM of the original chkconfig in case your system becomes un bootable and you have to reinstall it while booted off CD.
hope this helps