On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:28 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 07:40, stefmit wrote: > ... > > > > 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 ... > > You were probably missing gd-devel -- there's some weirdness there with > Mandrake's RPM-naming scheme (foobar1-0.3.i586.rpm vs. > foobar-1.0.3.i586.rpm).
And ...?!? Some weirdness is what I discovered throughout - nothing new there. > > > 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? > > ... > > what are you doing? Installing from RPM or installing from source? If > installing from source, having the binary library available as any name > doesn't do you diddly, you have to have the headers from the -devel rpm. > If installing from RPM and having dependencies problem, realize that the > rpm tool doesn't look at your filesystem, it looks in its database. > Hence the --nodeps I recommended earlier -- you've already made things > so that they ought to work, so you need to override the old information > in the rpm database. Both! For example: #urpmi --allow-nodeps qtopia_bla_bla installs fine ... but won't run! Having it installed only was not the final objective, though. I would have liked to use it. As someone else pointed out earlier (find libraries in other programs, and install those, in the hope of getting the missing libs), I found it faster this time to run W2K in VMWare (which was there for other reasons - i.e. quicken), and run qtopia within. The d**n thing runs flawlessly inside windows, so I got that one "fixed". Now I have to try nagios 1.1 the same way, and I could potentially end up with an "awesome" MDK9.1, running only VMWare, with W2K inside, running all the programs MDK can't run ... am I missing something here ;) ?!? All in all - I remember the days of Slackware or even Redhat, four-five years ago , when every freaking thing I tried could run, and libraries of different versions could live alongside each other. Now they won't even install ;( Thanks for all the good hints, though ... Stef
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