On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Andrew Konosky wrote: > I've noticed that if an rpm needs a certain dependent file, I must > install the rpm of that file becuase the the rpm doesn't see source > installs for some reason. Because it is not designed to. Rpm stores package information in a data base. As such things compiled from source are not registered in the rpmdb. > For example, I am trying to install the rpm > k3b-mp3-0.11.9-0.lvn.1.2.i386.rpm. I got an error on the first try > because I didn't have all the dependencies installed first. I found all > but one of the dependent rpms and installed them. The last dependent > "libi3-3.8.so.3" I could only find in a source version > (id3lib-3.8.3.tar.gz). I did the whole ./configure, make, su, make > install and it installed with no errors. I went to run the original rpm > installer, but it still says I need to install "libi3-3.8.so.3." How do > I get an rpm install to recognize a dependent file installed from You are working way to hard. Go get yum or apt-rpm and add fedora.us AND livna.org to the config files and install k3b. On my fc1 system I get the following when I try to install k3b-mp3: (tigger pts10) # yum install k3b-mp3 Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora.us stable Server: Fedora.us testing Server: Fedora.us Unstable Server: Fedora Core 1 base Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) Server: Macromedia flash Server: noarch updates Server: Fedora Core 1 updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [install: k3b-mp3 0.11.10-0.lvn.1.1.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: Exiting on user command. (tigger pts10) # Keep in mind I already have k3b installed but installing it was no harder than doing "yum install k3b". You can do the same thing with apt, but I do not use it, so I do not know the commands for it. I am pretty sure though it is not much harder than apt get k3b-mp3. > source? Is there a way to compile the source into an rpm file, then > install it? Yes, but I would recommend against doing that, especially given that all of the k3b rpms are available already. HTH, Tom
