[Gllug] Installing Linux software (Part II)

[James.Rocks at equant.com]

OK,

So there I was getting dead confused and I thought "I know ... I'll test it
on something simple!"

So I downloaded an application called "abiword" (part of Gnome Office) as
an rpm and clicked it. When it opened I ckicked "install" and I get a
dependency issue. I ran it again from a terminal session using "rpm -Uvh
abiword-0.9.5-16.rpm" and I am relieved to see that I get the same three
dependecies indicating (to me) that both GUI & command line versions of rpm
see things the same. The dependencies are:

error: failed dependencies:
        libgal.so.18 is needed by abiword-0.9.5-16
        libgnomeprint.so.15 is needed by abiword-0.9.5-16
        libltdl.so.3 is needed by abiword-0.9.5-16

I go off to www.rpmfind.net and I enter "gal.so.18" as my search, download
the indicated GNOME Application Support Libraries (gal-0.18.1-1i386.rpm)
and rerun the CL "rpm -Uvh abiword-0.9.5-16.rpm" ... same dependency
errors. I try another of the indicated libraries and the same ... HELP!!!!!

I was beginning to think it was all crystal clear ... does anyone else
depair when it comes to installations or is it just me?

James C. Rocks,
Technical Development Consultant
Archway House,
Canary Wharf.
EQUANT
E-Mail:    james.rocks at equant.com (work)
Phone:   07771-767405 (mobile), 0207-5226856 (work)


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