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If you installed through a tar-ball, then just make a fake rpm file, which holds the needed info, and rpm -i that file, then the database will think it has installed the dependency through rpm, where in fact you did it through a tar-ball. A simple one could look like this: code: Name: mozilla Version: 1.3 Release: 1 Summary: The mozilla fake package Copyright: GPL Group: Amusements BuildRoot: /tmp/%{name}-%{version} Packager: Kenneth 'Redhead' Nielsen <e@mail.no> Vendor: Kenneth 'Redhead' Nielsen <e@mail.no> %description Getting tired of having a million dependencies probs. %prep %setup %build %install %clean %files %changelog * Tue Feb 25 2003 Kenneth 'Redhead' Nielsen <e@mail.no> - Made this fake rpm file. Just save that as mozilla.src.rpm, and run: rpm -bb mozilla.src.rpm then it will create a .<arc>.rpm file which you can install and fool the rpm database into thinking mozilla version 1.3 is installed.

brilliant!!