Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your 2 cents too :-).
I didn't know it was possible to remove a package that
has dependencies with rpm. I tried using rpm -e -force curl*.rpm but you
can't
use the force option when removing a package. I had a circular dependency
problem
once so all I did was put both packages as arguments to rpm in one command
instead
of splitting it up in 2 and this worked.

I truly appreciate all of your help in this matter ...

~~Napt

>Looks like I'm a little late, but here's my 2c, anyway...
>
>If you want to be sure you are linking to the right lib, maybe you could
>call curl_version() or curl_version_info() somewhere in your program?
>
>
>If you're feeling brave, you should be able to uninstall the existing RPM
>by doing something like this:
>
># Keep a list of what/where the existing files are installed...
>rpm -ql curl > ~/curl_files.log
>
># Uninstall the package, without dependency checking...
>rpm -e --nodeps curl
>
>Unless SuSE has done something really radical with their build of curl,
>YaST should be able to use the newer version of curl as well, but you
>might need a symlink if the new one is in a different location.
>
>You will probably want to have a copy of the original curl installation
>RPM, just in case.
>
>SuSE usually includes a copy of their "diff" file in the source package
>for each RPM, if you want to have a look at what makes their version
>so special.
>
>
>
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Received on 2003-05-23