Ok. This is why RPMs give me the heebie jeebies. From http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue68/nazario.html :
Sometimes RPM will whine about a dependency which is installed but isn’t registered. Perhaps you installed it not using an RPM for the package (ie OpenSSL). To get around this, you can force it to ignore dependencies:
rpm -ivv –nodeps (package)
Note that this isn’t always wise and should only be done when you know what you are getting youself into. This will rarely break installed stuff, but may mean the installed package wont work properly.
On rare occassion RPM will mess up and insist that you have a package installed when you don’t. While this is usually a sign that something is amiss, it can be worked around. Just force the installation:
rpm -ivv –force (package)
Wrong wrong wrong! wrong.
wrong.
rpm is supposed to take the hard stuff out of the hands of the clueless n00b. In the end it hides the complexity, denies the learning process, then still lets the user break his system!