Re: Problems installing an RPM

[Jason Greenwood]

Glad you got it going in the end. I still consider myself a Linux newbie 
myself, so anytime you have a Mandrake question, please fire away. I 
have used it almost exclusively since I started using Linux (a couple of 
years now) and I am sure to have made any of the mistakes you may THINK 
you have made. ;)

Cheers

Jason

David Merriman wrote:

Thanks for all the help guys; I've got RoseGarden installed 
successfully now.  I used Jason's PLF suggestion to update urpmi, and 
Anton's one to use the Control Center in install the stuff.  I didn't 
really have any problems, apart from not being 100% sure what I needed 
to be doing.  But you're right, it IS easy this way !

In reply to Anton's 'ps', I'm a Linux newbie, only had Mandrake 
installed for just under 3 weeks.  However, I'm a programmer in Real 
Life(tm), so you don't have to go easy on me :) .  I won't have any 
problems understanding *what* needs to be done, but I may need a 
little hand-holding so I know exactly *how* to do something the first 
time.

Thanks once again guys,
Dave
David Merriman 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
librosegarden0-4-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 !

Thanks
Dave
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