On Tuesday 04 May 2004 11:21 am, Kent Schumacher wrote: > I'm trying to install ximians openoffice rpm, and it's got a gratuitous > dependency on ximians cups package, which of course conflicts with another > package. > > Is there any way to simply extract the spec file, take out the gratuitous > dependency, and then reinsert the spec file in the package. rpm2cpio | cpio -i openoffice.spec Edit openoffice.spec to your hearts desire. rpm -ba openoffice.spec I can tell you that if you want to use the ximian openoffice you'll have to have a ton of ximian dev/libs installed. This is one of the reasons I moved away from Ximian. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list