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Have a mutual dependency situation for geany installation

I tried to install geany rpm on centOS 6.7, Here is the prompt:

[root@localhost Downloads]# rpm -Uvh geany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
geany-libgeany = 1.27-1.el6 is needed by geany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64
libgeany.so.0()(64bit) is needed by geany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64
[root@localhost Downloads]# rpm -Uvh geany-libgeany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
geany = 1.27-1.el6 is needed by geany-libgeany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64
[root@localhost Downloads]#

Those two rpms are mutually dependent.How can this happen?

Solution

  • This is quite common. You just need the to install them together:

    rpm -Uvh geany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64.rpm geany-libgeany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

    Or even better:

    yum install geany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64.rpm geany-libgeany-1.27-1.el6.x86_64.rpm