[mythtv-users] Re: apt-get dist-upgrade rpm conflicts

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:30:13AM -0700, Gerald Schepens wrote:
> You know, I have a similar issue.  I have apt--0.5.15cnc6-53.2.rh9.at 
> installed.
> 
> I used rpm to install kvim with --nodeps because it depends on vim, and 
> vim is not an installable package according to apt-get.  Therefore there 
> was no way for me to satisfy the dependency.  Never mind that I do have 
> vim installed;

How? What does

rpm -qf `which vim`

say? It is vim-minimal or vim-enhanced, I guess. So no "vim" package.

> If I actually do an apt-get -f install as the message suggests, its 
> brilliant suggestion is to remove kvim, and I don't wanna!  I love vim.

But kvim's package is obviously broken for this distribution.

> Is there any way to get the RPM database to shuddap about vim already?

Install a vim rpm, or a kvim rpm that has proper dependencies.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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