Re: Problems installing an RPM

[Anton]

David, This may all seem a bit daunting... I still don't really know what most of these guys are on about. I suggest you do indeed start with www.plf.org Then set up the urpmi sources just as they direct. That means that you can simply use the "mandrake control centre's" "software management" module. Though I try and install most sofware "properly" (i.e., compiling from source) now, the Mandrake control centre's rpm management system was what really enabled me to be able to take the first step in Linux. Once you have set up the urpmi thing from the PLF site everything becomes easy and (mostly) clear. urpmi is basically a big software download site in the sky. You set it up (I set up most of the mirrors, or libraries of programmes) and then the ?000's of programmes just look like they are ready to be installed from your discs. You select them and if they are on the discs you will be asked to insert the discs and if they are from the net, then as long as you are connected to the net, they will download and install as if they we on disc... The advantage here, particularly with the PLF is that all of the not-strictly-legal-stuff (ie. the DVD playing stuff, which is illegal ... cos they're wa*&n%^Kers) is all there and really to click. I really suggest you get familiar with the Mandrake control centre stuff as it makes things MUCH easier as you are starting. It's all auto-styles - easy as. aiiie. Anton ps. I don't know how advanced David is guys, but if I had have got those replies when I first started I would have still been pretty confused ... :-\) Nick Rout wrote: David, you need to: 1. set up your urpmi sources properly 2. use urpmi to install rosegarden, urpmi will drag in the dependencies. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8018846552.html may help On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:10:18 +1200 David Merriman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for that Chris. Unfortunately, when I tried that I got the following errors: error: open of librosegarden0-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory error: open of rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory error: open of libjack0-0.50.0-3mdk.i586 failed: No such file or directory I have the first two files in file:/home/david/RoseGarden/, but I don't have 'libjack0-0.50.0-3mdk.i586'. Should I go find that somewhere ? As you can tell, I'm very green at this sort of thing... :-[ Thanks Dave Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:10, you wrote: Hi there, I'm having some fun (not) trying to install a program. Is anyone able>to help ? It's a music notation/MIDI composer called RoseGarden. I'm using Mandrake 9.1. I've downloaded the following RPM's: rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm I right-click on 'rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm' and select 'Software Installer'. I then get this message: *** To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (6 MB): libjack0-0.50.0-3mdk.i586 rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586 Is this OK? *** I click on OK, and a few seconds later get this message: *** Conflicts were detected: librosegarden0-4-arts = 0.9.1 is needed by rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk>libRosegardenSequencer.so.0 is needed by rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk> Install aborted *** I'm stuck at this point. I assume ' librosegarden0-4-arts' is the RPM I>downloaded (above). I can't find ' libRosegardenSequencer.so.0'>anywhere. I've Googled hi and lo, and found nothing helpful.>I've tried installing 'librosegarden0-4-arts' first, but it complains>that it needs 'rosegarden0-4-arts', so I'm going round in circles...> Any advice/ideas gratefully received ! You have been introduced to the hell of RPM package management. try opening a shell ( command line screen ) and type:- rpm -Uvh librosegarden0-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm \ rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm \ libjack0-0.50.0-3mdk.i586 you will be told about any other .rpm files needed, I cannot tell what's needed as I do not know what is installed already. my guess is that you will need the alsa library and drivers and possibly something called ladspa-cmt-1.15 whatevcer that is. add them to the list above and re-run the rpm command. Don't forget the '\' at the end of the line except the last one. There is a wealth of audio stuff at:- http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html hth, have fun. -- Life is just one of those things that happens between quartet practices