[linux-help] Re: Redhat RPM help

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The prereq's rpm (the program) lists when you try to 'rpm -ivh
whatever.rpm' are usually files within another package (rpm) that are
required to install the packge in question...  for instance, Window Maker
is dependant on libPropList...  rather than saying "Window Maker is
dependant on libPropList-0.8.0-i386.rpm" (i just made up the version,
since i'm not sure of the recent release), it will most likely say that
WM is dependant on libPropList.so.2 or something a little more abstract
on more complex libraries...

the easiest thing to do to get the RPMs that the prereq's are included in
is searching on rpmfind.net for "libPropList.so.2" or whatever it lists...
it should find the .rpm file you need to download and install...

you also might want to search on freshmeat.net for rpm or gnorpm which
will find some great GUI programs for installing RPMs...  works very well,
and some (like RPMDrak in Mandrake GNU/Linux) will actually tell you which
rpms are required and offere to download/install them for you...

Hope this helps...  feel free to ask again if this doesn't clarify
anything... it's been quite a while since i've used RH and i've just
recently switched to FreeBSD, so I hope I didn't get my wires crossed when
replying! : ^ )

gLaNDix

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bruce Bales wrote:

>
> I need help on an RPM problem.
> I am trying to rpm WindowMaker into a small system I have installed RH 6.2 on.
>
> rpm -ivh WindowMaker provides me with a list of prerequisites - files that
> windowmaker needs - starting with wmconfig (which is an rpm file) and the rest
> of them lib*.so.0 files like libaudiofile.so.0 and libesd.so.0.
>
> Running rpm -ivh wmconfig gives me anothe list of lib*.so.0 files.
>
> Since these files are not rpm files, I can't install them using rpm.  I have
> copied them from the cdrom to various places on the disk and rpm -ivh
> WindowMaker still gives me the same list of files needed.
>
> I looked at another RH 6.2 system and copied some of the files to the location
> of those with the same name - no good.
>
> I copied some to a directory that is in my PATH, thinking redhat would look
> there - no good.
>
> Where can I copy these files to such that redhat can find them and complete 
> the
> install?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> bruce
>
>
>
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