Python 2.1 dependencies

[Gerhard Häring]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:20:10 -0700, Bruce Wolk <bawolk at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>On an RH 7.1 system I rebuilt the source RPMs for Python 2.1.  But when
>I tried to install  expat-1.1-3tummy.i386.rpm, I got the following error
>
>error: failed dependencies:
>                    libexpat.so.0   is needed by abiword-0.7.13-2
>
>This is odd, since  /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 is present on my system, but
>also what does Python have to do with abiword?

Looks like a RPM annoyance that is safe to ignore (you probably already have
another libexpat installed) Just install it with

rpm --noedeps packagename.rpm

Gerhard
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