A little late to the party, but this is what we've done here, with no
ill effects (been working fine since March).

David Bronder wrote:

An alternative in this particular case would be to install the RPM with
the "--nodeps" option to ignore dependencies.  AFAIK, the /usr/bin/ksh
dependency is only there for the dsmj Java GUI client wrapper script,
which isn't usable on ESX anyway since Java isn't installed (on either
2.x or 3.x of ESX).