I did as you suggested and installed xforms 0.88.1 from an RPM
package. I still get the same error message saying that the package
needs xforms > 0.88. So I decided to allow RPM to continue installing
despite the dependency problem. When I tried to run the xfmail
program, I got the following message:
xfmail: error in loading libraries: libstdc++-libc.1-2.so.3: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
Two questions:
1 - why does RPM think I don't have xforms after I install the xforms
RPM package ?
2 - what is the libstdc++-libc.1-2.so.3 file I seem to be missing.
BTW - when I uninstalled xforms (using RPM again) I got a warning
telling me the package is needed by xfmail. So this seems strange.
The dependency seems to be in the RPM database after all !!!!
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:53:42 +0200 (EET), guy keren wrote:
>
>On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install a GUI e-mail package called xfmail. When I ran
>> RPM I got an error message that the package needs xforms > 0.88 so I
>> found it, downloaded, opened the tar file, and ran **make install**
>> according to the directions in the README file. But RPM still gives
>> the same error message. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here
>> and/or what to look for?
>
>my _guess_ would be that you forgot soemthing about RPM - it cannot know
>about packages that you install in the system without using RPM. e.g. - if
>you install something from sources, it won't go into the RPM database
>(unless you installed an SRPM - source RPM, or created an RPM package out
>of the resuting binary yourself).
>
>solutions:
>
>1. find this version of xform in RPM and install that.
>
>2. tell RPM to ignore depedencies while installing xfmail. ofcourse, this
> means breaking your RPM database, and making it harder to maintain
> applications with RPM in the future.
>
>note: i don't use RPM myself, so i might as well be wrong.
>
>guy
>
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> or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
>
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