> I tried to install the RPM package. To do this, I first installed rpm and
> alien, but rpm ends with the following error message:
> "failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: No such file or directory
>
> error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"
>
> Waht can I do? Is it enough to simply create the /var/lib/rpm directorie and
> an empty packages.rpm file, or is it more difficult?
thats what i did, too. works except of the problem that rpm will report
dependency failures.
just check for the them by running rpm -i <yourrpm> to see which
requirements it has, check for them manually and if nothing is missing
install your rpm with rpm -i --nodeps <yourrpm> to kick the dependency
checks.
>
> Then I tried to install QtCUPS from the tarball. But ./configurE terminates
> with
> "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.1) (headers and
> libraries) not found. Please check your installation!"
>
> That is _NOT_ funny!!!!
>
> (Qt2.2.3 is in /usr/lib/qt2 with a softlink to /usr/bin/qt. There are the
> subdirectories ./lib and (empty) ./bin)
you possibly should install libqt2.2-dev.
regards,
nosy
