On August 12, 2005 05:02 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > OK, I'm about ready to tear my hair out. > > I've just installed 2005LE and there seems to be no decent packages > around for it. > > I want to install gEDA - several packages in one suite, all built from > source and several dependencies... so I need checkinstall. > > No surprise that there's no checkinstall rpm; IIRC I built it from > source the last time. But now the first time I use it it fails, telling > me to install rpm-build. > > urpmi refused to install rpm-build because it had never heard of it. > > The rpm version with 2005LE is 4.2.3, which is several versions newer > than I found at www.rpm.org. > > I found a 4.2.3 rpm of rpm-build, but it needs automake. urpmi knows > about automake, but it wants autoconf. Autoconf is an unknown package > according to urpmi (WTF? autoconf!? And yes I have gone to easyurpmi and > set up everything.) Eventually I ended up compiling them both from > source. > > Now rpm-build still complains because it wants automake version 1, and > I've got version 2. > > 1. Is there an rpm of rpm-build for 2005LE? > 2. Are there any rpms at all for 2005LE? > 3. Have I got something misconfigured? > 4. Failing .1. Where is the source code for rpm-build 4.2.3? > > --------------------------------------------------------- > removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main > ../../media/media_info/hdlist1.cz > > removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main2 > ../../media/media_info/hdlist2.cz > > removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main3 > ../../media/media_info/hdlist3.cz > > ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.2/main_u >pdates media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz > > http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/free/10.2 > hdlist.cz > > http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.2 > hdlist.cz > > http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/m >edia/contrib media_info/hdlist.cz > > http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/m >edia/jpackage media_info/hdlist.cz
Now I may be wrong but I'm sure I had the rpm-build on 2005LE and I know I have it on the 2006 cooker because I just finished using it. One hint about your sources, though. Try adding the distribution source. I'm not sure if it will solve your problem but it has resolved things for me my DVD can't seem to. You may need to take things with a grain of salt here because I have the silver level version of 2005 and of cooker. But give it a try anyway and see what happens. ttfn John
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