-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:59:19 -0500 (CDT) Mark Alford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to install FVWM on some Fedora Core 5 machines. > > 1) I went to the website and downloaded fvwm-2.4.19-1.i386.rpm, and also > the libstroke that is linked to there, but fvwm won't install: > > rpm -ivh fvwm-2.4.19-1.i386.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: libreadline.so.4 is needed by > fvwm-2.4.19-1.i386 I found that FC5 has libreadline.so.5 not > libreadline.so.4 > > 2) I decided to try the src rpm, since they usually work. It failed too: > error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright > error: line 17: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL > > Apparently this is because the Copyright tag has been deprecated for > years and is now finally forbidden: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2005-February/msg00049.html > > So, > (a) Is there an easy way to get the rpm to install? > (b) Can someone fix the src.rpm so that it is valid under the latest > rpmbuild? rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps fvwm-2.4.19-1.i386.rpm Myles - -- Stray Alpha Particles from memory packaging caused Hard Memory Error on Server. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEks4Lf8E1+O/Jq5YRAvUaAKCd0b/PYY6zrIkEE0RSWSwe++4lxwCdHofL UmerC75DQzR7oJN/lABB1FI= =x5cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
