[newbie] RPM Dependencies

2004-09-30 Thread Lexx
Greetings again! I am attempting to download and install the KnetworkLED app (RPM) but it doesn't install because I do not have libXinerama.so.1 My questions, what does libXinerama.so.1 do and why wasn't it included in my original XFree86 bundle? Kind Regards Lexx Registered Linux User No.3

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:36, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Monday 25 November 2002 02:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > 3.) Run the proggie and see what happens..."core" files are easily > > deleted...(grin) > > Aha, a fellow graduate of the Crash 'n Burn School of Software > Testing! "If it doesn't

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-25 Thread Les Henderson
yeah, it looked like a usefull command when you recommended it to me and i read the manpage. in addition to adding the paths that you recommended i added another one that i thought would be pertinent. unfortuneately it didn't seem to help me with my problem. for some reason forcing the rpm to in

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-25 Thread Les Henderson
On 25 Nov 2002, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Read? Read what? A manual? A README file? What's the point of reading > about an application when you can just fire it up and crash away!?!? > (grin) > i tried that at first and didn't seem to be able to get it to work for me, so i took a very quick skim of th

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 25 November 2002 02:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 3.) Run the proggie and see what happens..."core" files are easily > deleted...(grin) Aha, a fellow graduate of the Crash 'n Burn School of Software Testing! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 18:58, Hal Wigoda wrote: > What does editting the /etc/ld.so.conf do? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good question! When binaries look for dependent libraries, they need to know where to look - almost like a "path" statement, but for libs. So, in essence, when you edit the /etc/ld.so.

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:54, Les Henderson wrote: > On 25 Nov 2002, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 06:24, Les Henderson wrote: > > > I'm trying to install an rpm of mutella 0.4.1, but I'm getting dependency > > > errors. I get the error that mutella needs libreadline.so.4. I checke

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-24 Thread Les Henderson
On 25 Nov 2002, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 06:24, Les Henderson wrote: > > I'm trying to install an rpm of mutella 0.4.1, but I'm getting dependency > > errors. I get the error that mutella needs libreadline.so.4. I checked > > and I do have readline installed and libreadline.so.

Re: [newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 06:24, Les Henderson wrote: > I'm trying to install an rpm of mutella 0.4.1, but I'm getting dependency > errors. I get the error that mutella needs libreadline.so.4. I checked > and I do have readline installed and libreadline.so.4 is present. Could > you help me figure ou

[newbie] rpm dependencies

2002-11-23 Thread Les Henderson
I'm trying to install an rpm of mutella 0.4.1, but I'm getting dependency errors. I get the error that mutella needs libreadline.so.4. I checked and I do have readline installed and libreadline.so.4 is present. Could you help me figure out why I'm getting dependency errors? Les Henderson [EMAIL