[Shorewall-users] installation issue - RPM conflict?

Tom Eastep
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:22:46 -0000

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, jon yeargers wrote:

> Attempting to install 1.4.2-1.noarch.rpm onto a Mandrake 9.0 system. Am
> getting a message stating:
>
> failed dependancies:
>     iproute is needed by shorewall-1.4.2-1
>
> According to RPM iproute is installed... do I have the wrong version?
>
> enter: rpm -qa | grep iproute
> return: iproute2-2.4.7-4mdk
>
> I tried to install iproute-2.4.7.i386.rpm but rec''d a slew of
> ''incompatibility'' messages from RPM. Is there a
workaround for either of
> these problems?
>
> What did I do wrong / miss?

Nothing -- Mandrake calls the package iproute2 whereas Shorewall calls it
iproute as it is called on RedHat. Use the ''--nodeps'' option
to rpm.

-Tom
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