Richard Urwin wrote: > OK, I'm about ready to tear my hair out. > > I've just installed 2005LE and there seems to be no decent packages > around for it. > > I want to install gEDA - several packages in one suite, all built from > source and several dependencies... so I need checkinstall. > > No surprise that there's no checkinstall rpm; IIRC I built it from > source the last time. But now the first time I use it it fails, telling > me to install rpm-build. > > urpmi refused to install rpm-build because it had never heard of it. > > The rpm version with 2005LE is 4.2.3, which is several versions newer > than I found at www.rpm.org. > > I found a 4.2.3 rpm of rpm-build, but it needs automake. urpmi knows > about automake, but it wants autoconf. Autoconf is an unknown package > according to urpmi (WTF? autoconf!? And yes I have gone to easyurpmi and > set up everything.) Eventually I ended up compiling them both from > source. > > Now rpm-build still complains because it wants automake version 1, and > I've got version 2. > > 1. Is there an rpm of rpm-build for 2005LE? > 2. Are there any rpms at all for 2005LE? > 3. Have I got something misconfigured? > 4. Failing .1. Where is the source code for rpm-build 4.2.3? > 1. I have rpm-build-4.2.3-9mdk on my 2005LE system. 2. As posted in another message, visit http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and set up the sources. Make sure you set up both a main and the PLF sources. You will need the main source if you are going to build your own packages, because a lot of the development packages didn't make it into the 3 CD download set, but are part of the main rpm collection on the mirror sites. With just the CD or DVD sources, you will be missing packages.
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