rpm installation help

2003-11-11 Thread Anshuman Singh Rawat
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from glib-1.2.10-8 to glib-1.2.10-10 in my RH 8. The problem is that while installing the RPM, i get dependency error with glibc 2.3.2, which in turn needs glibc-common 2.3.2. When I try to install glibc-common 2.3.3, it conflicts with an earlier version. Removing that

Re: courier-imap RPM help!

2003-09-24 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 25 September 2003 06:15, Tim Merkel wrote: > Why is it saying "libcrypto.so.4 is needed by python.2.2.2-26"? I am not > trying to install python. > > Can somebody please enlighten me to where I am stuck? Maybe an RPM 101 > guide would help me. Thanks in advan

courier-imap RPM help!

2003-09-24 Thread Tim Merkel
Hello, I have been trying to get courier-imap installed on RH 9 for the past couple of days to no avail. Most of my troubles are coming from RPMs. Any help you can give this newbie would be much appreciated. First of all, I don't even know if I have the most current rpm, I am using co

RPM Problem

2003-01-26 Thread Anant Aneja
Note: Forwarded message attached -- Orignal Message -- From: "Anant Aneja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Begin Message --- hi there. my problem is that Gnome RPM (gnorpm) provides for a method by which dependecy checks are done and required files are infor

RH8 rpm database is toast

2003-01-11 Thread Chris Rose
I attempted to uninstall one of two overlapping versions of the cyrus-sasl package this evening, since apt-rpm complained that it couldn't work with two of the same package installed. Rpm hung during the install (rpm -e cyrus-sasl-2.7.??) so hard that I had to log out of the terminal that i

Re: rpm description

2003-01-03 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
On Thursday 02 January 2003 22:23, Peter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > for a package already installed: rpm -qi > > for a package not yet installed: rpm -qip > > Using mc has the advantage of not making typing errors on those long names. That is what I thought t

Re: rpm description

2003-01-02 Thread Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > for a package already installed: rpm -qi > for a package not yet installed: rpm -qip Using mc has the advantage of not making typing errors on those long names. -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"

Re: rpm description

2003-01-02 Thread whitnl73
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, glenn wrote: > Im using Mandrake 9. Have been playing with rpm and urpmi a bit. > > It would seem that most RPM files have a little description of their contents > in each. is there an option or method to read these descriptions from the > console. I've had

rpm description

2003-01-02 Thread glenn
Im using Mandrake 9. Have been playing with rpm and urpmi a bit. It would seem that most RPM files have a little description of their contents in each. is there an option or method to read these descriptions from the console. I've had a look thru the man pages and am just getting more con

rpm problems

2002-12-03 Thread dave
This is the error I get if I'm logged in as root. When I am logged in as user dave rpm works ok. rpm -rebuilddb rpmdb: Program version 4.0.14 doesn't match environment version 3.1.14 error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument error: cannot open Packages index Th

Re: rpm

2002-12-03 Thread 1stFlight
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 11:32 am, Dave Pomeroy wrote: > I just installed Mandrake 9.0. Everything is cool except when I try to run > rpm to ad a package I get an error saying that I have 2 different versions > of RPM. Anyway to fix this without a reinstall? Thanks for

rpm

2002-12-03 Thread Dave Pomeroy
I just installed Mandrake 9.0. Everything is cool except when I try to run rpm to ad a package I get an error saying that I have 2 different versions of RPM. Anyway to fix this without a reinstall? Thanks for your help. Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South East Washington - To unsubscribe from this

Re: RPM version of Alien around?

2002-11-07 Thread Jose
understand DEB > form. I suggested he use Alien to convert it to RPM. > Unfortunately, Alien seems to either be available only in > DEB form and/or requires other packages that are only > in DEB form. In his words, "I need to convert Alien to > RPM form so I can install it to con

Re: RPM version of Alien around?

2002-11-07 Thread Arthur Othieno
Hello there David, Alien RPMs are at www.rpmfind.net. I just cross-checked it out a while back, just to make sure, and it looks like their search feature is down temporarily. The link to the index of "A" packages is: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/AByName.html , that should "

RPM version of Alien around?

2002-11-07 Thread David Jones
A friend has the newest release of Mandrake installed on his Fujitsu Lifebook. He has a need to install a closed- source app that's available only in DEB form. Apparently the GUI Mandrake app installer doesn't understand DEB form. I suggested he use Alien to convert it to RPM. Unf

Re: RPM packaging

2002-09-28 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:59 am, Wladimir Foo wrote: > We use apt (Advanced packing tool) found in Debian GNU/Linux together with > RPM in our distribution (Voodoo Linux). Using our version of kpackager > it's closely resembles the Loki Update tool. Just "closely resembles&q

Re: RPM packaging

2002-09-28 Thread Wladimir Foo
> Where can I find tutorials on packaging my own RPMs? try freshrpms.net - They have a short, yet helpful tutorial there. rpm.org the official site also has info there. I would suggest trying freshrpms.net first before moving on to the more technical info. > Also, if I install a sour

Re: RPM packaging

2002-09-28 Thread Carl
At 13:29 28/09/2002 +0930, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: >Where can I find tutorials on packaging my own RPMs? I do my packaging in the kde ide "kdevelop". Very simple. -- Carl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mo

RPM packaging

2002-09-27 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
Where can I find tutorials on packaging my own RPMs? Also, if I install a source RPM, is it as easily removable as a regular RPM. What known techniques are there to tie multiple packaging systems together (eg, Loki style game distribution). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Source RPM

2002-09-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Peter wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > So it's the general census of the exp readers of this list that when > > one can one should install from rpm rather then source code. Correct? > > My experience shows that 9 out of 10 rpm ins

Re: Source RPM

2002-09-21 Thread Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > So it's the general census of the exp readers of this list that when > one can one should install from rpm rather then source code. Correct? My experience shows that 9 out of 10 rpm install properly and 9 out of 10 source code do not install for which reas

Re: Source RPM

2002-09-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:03 PM 9/20/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >So it's the general census of the exp readers of this list that when one >can one should install from rpm rather then source code. Correct? Dunno about "consensus" -- we don't take a lot of votes here -- but my personal v

Source RPM

2002-09-20 Thread Paul Kraus
So it's the general census of the exp readers of this list that when one can one should install from rpm rather then source code. Correct? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

problem installing rpm

2002-09-10 Thread Jim Reimer
Can't get the fonttastic rpm included with Corel Photo-Paint to install: [root@pyro2 i386]# rpm -iv fonttastic-glibc-2.1* Preparing packages for installation... package fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.06.22.14.00-1 is already installed file /etc/init.d from install of fonttastic-glib

Re: Upgrading RPM

2001-05-17 Thread Richard Adams
On Thu, 17 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK. I regressed back to RH4.1 only because I've not been successful > with configuring X4.0.1a Does anyone know how to upgrade the actual > Package manager? I dont see the relationship between upgrading RPM and configuring X,

Upgrading RPM

2001-05-17 Thread bmg143
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Re: Building an RPM package?

2001-03-15 Thread Marco Calistri
On 15-Mar-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Marco Calistri wrote: > >> Hello Lawson,it is a SOURCE! --cut >> After I write my SPEC file I do:"rpm -bs " > > That will build a source rpm, I think. Installing a source rpm will no

Re: Building an RPM package?

2001-03-14 Thread Marco Calistri
On 15-Mar-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are you trying to build an RPM from a source tar.gz? Or is this a > binary tar.gz? I have built at least 1 rpm from source and had no such > troubles. rpm is sort of geared toward building from source, I think. Hello Lawson,it is a SO

Building an RPM package?

2001-03-14 Thread Marco Calistri
Hello,I'am playing around building an RPM from a tar.gz archive. Everything goes well except the fact that only files are embedded into the final package,dirs and subdirs not. I.E. from archive root.tar.gz containing: /root file1.bin file2.bin /subroot1 file3.bin file4.bin attemptin

Re: Failed Upgrading RPM 4.0

2001-03-10 Thread Marco Calistri
On 10-Mar-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Marco Calistri wrote: > >> Hello,I've tried to make an upgrade from RPM version 3.0.4 to the new 4.0; >> I passed over two attempts: both from .rpm package and from .tar.gz but >> I get th

Failed Upgrading RPM 4.0

2001-03-10 Thread Marco Calistri
Hello,I've tried to make an upgrade from RPM version 3.0.4 to the new 4.0; I passed over two attempts: both from .rpm package and from .tar.gz but I get the same failure so that my gnorpm is not working anymore. The error I get is: gnorpm: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm