[Gllug] Installing Linux software (Part II)

Lance elldee at euphony.net
Wed Dec 12 15:22:37 UTC 2001


I had a similar problem last week when trying to install Evolution. I
think you'll find you need libgal18 instead of gal18.

Might be worth looking for similar name relationships for the other
RPMs.

Lance Dow


On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 14:16, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> 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)
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> 
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