[ltp] redhat 7.2 (Overcoming dependencies)
Joe Christy
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:09:24 -0700
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Robert W March wrote:
> Joe Christy wrote:
> >
> > Actually, you can just install as usual, and just "rpm -e --nodeps lm_sensors"
> ^^^
>
> Joe,
>
> I believe that 'rpm -e' refers to uninstall. Is this what you intended
> to say?
>
Yep. As long as you don't invoke any of the programs in lm_sensors, you're
safe*, _BUT_ I wouldn't recommend it. So you can do the RedHat install w/o thinking
(at least about lm_sensors & KDE), then remove lm_sensors before it gets used.
Just to be safe, I would recommend that you remove lm_sensors before KDE ever
gets invoked: When anaconda (the initial installer) gets to X configuration, just
tell Xconfigurator that you don't want to boot into X, and remove lm_sensors from
the console as root. N.B. you need the --nodeps flag to reassure rpm -e that
you're not seriously harming your KDE installation. When you are done, just change
the first non-comment line in /etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault:
to
id:5:initdefault:
and the next reboot will revert to giving you X. (In the mean time you could either
use the command "startx" to launch X as root, or "telinit 5" to get you to a
graphical login panel.)
Joe
* In fact I had it installed under a 6.2+rawhide for about a week before I realized
it and suffered no ill effects, despite using KDE exclusively. Since then, I moved
through clean installs of 7.1 and roswell as above.
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Robert W March wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Joe Christy wrote:
<br>>
<br>> Actually, you can just install as usual, and just "rpm -e --nodeps
lm_sensors"
<br>^^^
<p>Joe,
<p>I believe that 'rpm -e' refers to uninstall. Is this what you
intended
<br>to say?
<br><a href="http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html"></a> </blockquote>
Yep. As long as you don't invoke any of the programs
in lm_sensors, you're safe*, _BUT_ I wouldn't recommend it. So you can
do the RedHat install w/o thinking (at least about lm_sensors & KDE),
then remove lm_sensors before it gets used.
<p> Just to be safe, I would recommend that you remove
lm_sensors before KDE ever gets invoked: When anaconda (the initial
installer) gets to X configuration, just tell Xconfigurator that you don't
want to boot into X, and remove lm_sensors from the console as root.
N.B. you need the --nodeps flag to reassure rpm -e that you're not seriously
harming your KDE installation. When you are done, just change the first
non-comment line in /etc/inittab:
<pre>id:3:initdefault:</pre>
to
<pre>id:5:initdefault:</pre>
and the next reboot will revert to giving you X. (In the mean time you
could either use the command "startx" to launch X as root, or "telinit
5" to get you to a graphical login panel.)
<p> Joe
<p>* In fact I had it installed under a 6.2+rawhide for about a week before
I realized it and suffered no ill effects, despite using KDE exclusively.
Since then, I moved through clean installs of 7.1 and roswell as above.
<br>
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