gEDA-dev: pcb and pcb-symbols dependency

[Werner Hoch]

Hi Bert,

On Thursday 07 September 2006 19:24, Timmerman, Bert wrote:
> Recently I upgraded to FC5 and after installing and upgrading
> including all needed devel rpms I installed the pcb gtk2 frontend:
> pcb-gtk-20060422-1.fc5.i386.rpm.
>
> And then the common files: pcb-doc-20060422-1.fc5.i386.rpm and
> pcb-symbols-20060822-2.fc5.i386.rpm.
>
> And pcb-symbols-20060422-1.fc5.i386.rpm failed because of depending
> on pcb, mind you, not depending on pcb-gtk.
>
> Does this mean I cannot install the footprints without installing the
> the Xaw frontend ? (pcb-x11-20060822-2.fc5.i386.rpm).

No.

You can force rpm to ignore the dependencies, thus install without 
checking the dependencies.
In your case, I guess, its only a small error in the rpm spec file.

The pcb-gtk rpm has to tell, that it provides pcb.

Write a small mail to the package maintainer. He can surely fix it.

regards
Werner (SuSE user)