"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message
news:mBRLd.131994$w62.51924@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I've got Enlightenment 0.15.5.-48 running on one boot disk because I need
> compatibility with an embedded installation elsewhere. Okay, what I
> really
> need is binary compatibility with the kernel and user-programs' API. Both
> installations are derived from the same RedHat 6.2 system disk. So far,
> so
> good.
>
> I wanted to find and install the doc package for enlightenment. I went to
> their website and the only one I could find was the doc package for
> 0.16.x -- hey, no problem, I said glibly, I'll install that and it should
> contain most of what I need. BUT ...
>
> The enlightenment-docs-0.16.7-1.noarch.rpm package will not install. rpm
> tells me that it won't install it because one of the prerequisites is, in
> fact, enlightenment 0.16.
>
> Which means that I can't install the doc files until I install the binary
> but I don't want to install the binary until I read the doc to see how
> much
> different it is than the previous version ... GOTCHA!!!
>
> Okay, what can I do? I've tried rpm -i --force ... but it just gave me
> the
> same messages as rpm -i ... so that won't work.
>
> Does anyone know how to install a doc file without having the binary? Or
> can someone tell me where I can find the old doc file for the binary I
> have.

Install them both at the same time, using the "-U" command instead of "-i".