On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:38 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:27, stefmit wrote: > > I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere > > has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with > > libraries slightly different version than MDK ones fails to install, > > regardless of what I attempt to do. Last example is qtopia's RPM, which I > > NEED like air, for my Zaurus, but which install (unlike 9.0) breaks now > > in MDK9.1, with the following message: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] utilities]# urpmi qtopia-desktop-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm > > installing qtopia-desktop-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm > > > > Installation failed: > > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by qtopia-desktop-1.6.1-1 > > > > I have tried everything one can imagine, in regards to previously posted > > advices, from creating symlinks to existing libs, to modifying > > /etc/ld.so.conf, to rerunning ldconfig ... etc. I almost envy winblows > > users now, who can install multiple versions of dll-s in the directories > > of the executables, and they run programs fine. I have been trying to > > keep the system "urpmi database" friendly, but this way I won't be able > > to install different libraries, as installing the ones I need, from > > source, would probably have undesired effects. > > > > What are you - people - doing with the programs requiring different > > libraries than what MDK provides? Or are you using only MDK packaged > > programs? > > Usually a problem like this indicates I've downloaded the wrong RPM for > my distribution. If it turns out that it is the right RPM, I'll try > --nodeps and see if it can install and run. > > > Another perfect example of something needed, but impossible to install in > > MDK9.1: nagios 1.1 (the www part), which - yet again - cannot install > > because of the same issue of libraries (and - by the way - the packagers > > from MDK decided - for some weird reasons - to have the nagios 1.0 > > install all over the place, vs. the docs provided with the source, which > > > > TIA, > > Stef > > > > P.S. Speaking of nagios - the person who contributed the nagios packag > > for MDK9.1 decided - for some weird reasons - to have the nagios 1.0 > > install all over the place, vs. the docs provided with the source, which > > are based on a /usr/local/nagios consolidated directory install. I spent > > almost a week adjusting all config files to take into account the new > > "placement", MDK9.1 specific, and I (hope) documented everything. If > > anybody is interested, I can clean the docs up and send them over. What a > > PITA that was!!! > > no different than what is done with Apache... the compile-from-source > package puts everything related to foobar in /usr/local/foobar because > that's where it is expected. The came-with-the-OS package (or contrib in > this case) puts all configuration in /etc, all logs in /var, all > libraries in /usr/lib, etc. That's the way distros are. If you don't > want to do it that way, then download the source from nagios.org and > configure it, then make rpm.
Sure - wish you were right ... you probably missed the other part of the email: I WANTED to use nagios from the source (i.e. 1.1), as it was fixed for a couple of things. But the www part won't install ... guess why? Because of some libraries problems, which ... and here I can start all over again with my original email ... I guess the question still is: when you NEED a specific library, and "ln -s" -ing with existing one won't work, WHAT are you doing? > > Besides, Nagios is a royal PITA to configure anyway... it took a week to > figure out how to do it, yes -- but conversion of my config to Oden's > RPM was only an hour. Now, figuring out that it wouldn't run in msec > level 4, that took some significant time :-) Thx, Stef
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