Erlang and epmd installation from binary has circular dependency

Question

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I am trying to install Erlang 23 on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 12 Patch 3 which is not connected to Internet so I cannot use zypper or wget and have to install it manually using binary.

I get the below errors :

• erlang-epmd is needed by erlang-23.0.2-1.2.x86_64 when installing erlang.
• erlang = 23.0.2 is needed by erlang-epmd-23.0.2-1.2.x86_64 when installing erlang-empd.

How to resolve this circular dependency?

Answer 1

You can install codependent RPMs by putting them together in the same command, e.g.:

rpm -iv erlang-23.0.2-1.2.x86_64.rpm erlang-epmd-23.0.2-1.2.x86_64.rpm