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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: HELP with DECstation 3100
Message-ID: <13127@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 07:53:33 GMT
References: <160.2698e133@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <160.2698e133@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu> maoursler@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu writes:
> 
> 	I have another problem that I very much hope has a SIMPLE solution.
> 	Somehow, I very much doubt it.  The problem is that when I use the
> 	'setld' command to install some libraries I get a rather unfriendly
> 	message telling me that package 'foo' requires package 'bar'.  Upon
> 	checking, it seems we have the newer version of 'bar'.  It asks for
> 	version 3 and we have 3.1.

That's a rtfprn - read the fine print in the release notes...

There a step that you have to do to tell setld that you have the orginal
base libraries installed, even though you actually loaded a newer base.
You have to do this for the core stuff, which is described and you may
also have to do it for layered products, which may require a little
generalization... 
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