Hi !
It was more that I want to get to files included in rpms that are not ony
my distrib CDs. So to load the right rpm i have to figure out what name it
has in order to install it to make the files available.
For example on my RH 5.2 this libstdc++.so.2.9 was not available. Took me
bugging many ppl and days to figure out that libstdc++.so.2.9 and
libstdc++.2.9 are the same, that i don't have them on my CDs and where to
find them on the internet. I doubt that the rpm -qilp * >~/rpmlist works
for the entire www *joke*.
With the exec prob i will install the required packages, they should be on
the CDs.
Thank you very much for your help !
Greez
Dave
>> Tosday I tried to install an mp3-player (i loaded x11amp [as
>rpm],
>> kjukebox and mp3-studio). Again I ran into tremendous problems like I
>> always do when I try to install something. I'm using RedHat 5.2, kernel
>> 2.0.36 and KDE 1.1.1 (if more information about my linux is needed,
>please
>> tell me).
>>
>> The x11rpm asks for some files in order of unsolved
>dependencies. I never
>> have a clue where to get those files, because only the file names and
>not
>> the name of a required package is reported (would be very comfortable
>if
>> the producers of rpms would add a source where to get those files).
>
>Pardon the autoplagiarism:
>
>I make an rpmlist by cd'ing to the RPMS dir on a RH cd and doing
>rpm -qilp * >~/rpmlist
>
>That gives me a file with the package descriptions and file list that's
>very useful for finding my way around RedHat.
>
>Just find the file you need with less, and then back up till you get to
>the package header, and you know what package you need.
>
>> I think of installing more programs to my system in future and
>I guess I
>> will always have the same problem. I don't think it is senseful to bug
>ppl
>> on this list everytime I want to install something, so that I'm
>interested
>> in a basic explanation on hwo to install software with less or even no
>> problems. Especially this point is imho the biggest disadvantage of
>Linux.
>>
>>
>> How can I figure out, what package includes the requested files
>?
>> Where can I find packages (besides rufus) ?
>> What do I have to do if the file is probably already on my
>puter, but has
>> a different name ? (I had once probs with a libstdc++.so.2.9 that was
>named
>> on my puter libstdc++.2.9 !)
>> Why is it always such a (unnecessary) problem to figure that
>out ?
>
>Just try developing a package to run on any conceivable system and see
>how easy it is. :-)
>
>I think rpm only knows about files it has installed.
>I use rpm -i --nodeps
>but I don't expect rpm to keep track of things. This is a SlackHat
>system. :-)
>>
>> The other progs were available as tar.gz files, so I unpacked
>them and
>> wanted to go the typical way with ./configure, make, make install. This
>is
>> pretty easy. But everytime ./configure aborts telling me that c++ / g++
>are
>> not able to produce executables.
>> What can I do to make the compiler (is it the compiler ?) to
>create
>> executables ?
>> Is there anything missing ?
>>
>Yes. Something is missing. To create c++ executables, you need at
>least:
>
>gcc or egcs.
>glibc-devel*.rpm
>libg++-devel*.rpm
>binutils-*.rpm
>
>the -devel package for any other library the program relies on, for
>instance XFree86-devel.
>
>Lawson
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