On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/18/2013 02:38 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/17/2013 02:38 PM, John Doe wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:48 AM, John Doe <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. the flash-plugin-11.2.202.327-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm updates wants >>>>>> libcurl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> (while the previous version does not)... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> # rpm -qp -R flash-plugin-11.2.202.327-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm | grep >>>>>> -i >>>>>> curl >>>>>> libcurl >>>>>> # >>>>>> # rpm -q -R flash-plugin | grep -i curl >>>>>> # >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. While libcurl is present, yum complains it is not... >>>>>> >>>>>> flash-plugin-11.2.202.327-0.1.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has >>>>>> depsolving >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> problems >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --> Missing Dependency: libcurl is needed by package >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> flash-plugin-11.2.202.327-0.1.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> # rpm -q --provides curl | grep -i libcurl >>>>>> libcurl.so.3 >>>>>> # >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it because of the extra ".so.3"...? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'll bet thatyou're on a 64-bit system. Try using "yum install >>>>> flash-plugin-11.2.202.327-0.1. >>>>> el5.rf.i386.rpm"., and see if it gets the necessary dependencies. >>>>> >>>>> Also, it's looking for a package called "libcurl". This not the >>>>> same as " a package that provides the libcurl library". What >>>>> does "rpm -q libcurl" say?
> Nico you know better than to top-post here... In my day job, I wind up dealing with a lot of top posters. It was a couple of lines, I hope we can survive the scars of my abusive behavior. I can probably find you flail if you need to give me 10 lashes. > The OP is obviously trying to install with yum, and it fails. The rpm > commands he uses are to show the deps, not to install, and they are correct > and useful. > I've confirmed that the deps cannot be satisfied. > It is a packaging bug in the el5 RF repo. OK, cool. It was *not* clear he'd ever tried installing with yum. I can easily believe that In fact, reviewing the contents of the Scientific Linux 5 repository at my fingertips, it's clear that RHEL 5, contains "curl", not "libcurl". The "rpm" commands run show the contents of what *provides* curl, not the contents of a "libcurl" package! The problem is that RHEL standards changed between RHEL 5 and RHEL 6, and more and more packages were written put the libraries in "libpkg" rather than in "pkg" with the binaries. So yes, for RHEL 5, the dependency should be on "curl". But our original poster's research shows tht he didn't understand the distinction between "the RPM demands a package that provides 'curl' having a library named 'libcurl'", and "a package that provides something labeled as "libcurl". And there's little sign that he was trying yum first to install the package. > There can be many reasons tu use rhel5/C5. In any case RF has historically > supported several EL version in parallel (for as long as each version was > supported upstream if I remember well). If the new RF policy is "only > support the latest EL", it should be clearly stated. > > Otherwise, the bug needs fixing. Can't help or figure out why the dep on > libcurl was added, since there's nothing less than 9 months old here: > https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/tree/master/specs/flash-plugin > > One thing I can see on an el6 system is that the latest rf-packaged flash > plugin doesn't seem to really require libcurl: > $ rpm -q flash-plugin > flash-plugin-11.2.202.327-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64 > $ ldd /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so | grep curl > $ > > So as the OP suggested, this dep in the latest rf SPEC may well be useless. In which case, the SRPM can be downloaded, the libcurl requirement commented out, and a fresh RPM tested. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
