[linux-help] Re: Redhat RPM help

[Bruce Bales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some progress.  I went to rpmfind.net as Jesse suggested and eventually found 
and
RPMed 17 required RPM files from the cdrom.  The final one was WindowMaker.  I 
then
ran wmaker.inst.  It installed, but something is still missing.  wmaker still 
says
"fatal error - could not open display."

All the docs say windowmaker is a window manager and as such I assume there 
must be
an Xwindows program to manage.  Do I have to install KDE or Gnome to use
windowmaker?  Or is there something smaller than KDE or Gnome?

Don't have a lot of space left on the 340MB disk.

bruce

"gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" wrote:

> 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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