[Gllug] Installing Stuff?

[Vincent AE Scott]

James.Rocks at equant.com(James.Rocks at equant.com)@Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:20:08PM +0000:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> > In the directory:
> > # rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> 
> I tried installing as you said with no luck ...I looked up in some of the
> help pages and it had a similar instruction but not quite the same i.e. rpm
> -ivh *.rpm (not sure what the difference is)
> 
> Anyway ...a whole page of dependencies was produced:
> 
> spike-lx:~/KDE 2.2.1 # rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libSDL-1.1.so.0 is needed by kdeaddons-2.2.1-25
>         libcrypto.so.0.9.6 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-17
>         libogg.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-17
>         libssl.so.0.9.6 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-17
>         libvorbis.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-17
>         libvorbisenc.so.0 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-17
>         libgtkembedmoz.so is needed by kdebindings-mozilla-2.2.1-7
>         libgtksuperwin.so is needed by kdebindings-mozilla-2.2.1-7
>         libnspr4.so is needed by kdebindings-mozilla-2.2.1-7
>         libplc4.so is needed by kdebindings-mozilla-2.2.1-7
>         libplds4.so is needed by kdebindings-mozilla-2.2.1-7
>         libxpcom.so is needed by kdebindings-mozilla-2.2.1-7
>         libcups.so.2 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-12
>         libxml2.so.2 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-12
>         qt-devel-doc is needed by kdelibs-devel-doc-2.2.1-12
>         /usr/bin/python is needed by kdelibs-devel-doc-2.2.1-12
>         libogg.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-13
>         libvorbis.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-13
>         libvorbisfile.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-13
>         /usr/bin/python is needed by kdesdk-2.2.1-24
>         qt-devel-doc is needed by kdevelop-2.0.1-13
>         qt-designer is needed by kdevelop-2.0.1-13
> 
> My problem is that none of these dependencies appears to relate to a given
> rpm ... how do I find the file in question?


ahhh the joy of chasing RPM dependencies!
OK, i'm not too sure of a great way of working out whats required, but
most of the time, the requested files map really closely to the package
names.

So have a look on your installation CD's for RPM's that sound like some
of the above requested files.  such as:

libSDL*.rpm
libogg*.rpm
...

BTW, the stars above are just shorthand wildcards, on my system they
might be:
libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
libogg0-1.0-0.rc2.1mdk.i586.rpm

on yours, they'll probably be something different.

on a more easier note, some of the GUI based package managers make this
sort of thing easier.  checkout kpackage, rpmdrake and probably others.
i'd hope (but cant confirm), that they take care of this stuff.




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