Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 08:19 +0100, LarryT wrote: >> Hi all :) >> Trying to install nvu, for fc4 rhel4 .... - :-/) >> http://www.nvu.com/download.html >> specialy this one : >> http://www.nvu.com/download/linux/1.0/nvu-1.0-RedHat_and_Fedora/nvu-1.0-1_nokde.rhel4.fs.i386.rpm >> But get failed deps message : >>> [root@Fopadix-fc5 downloads]# rpm -ivh nvu-1.0-1_nokde.rhel4.fs.i386.rpm >>> error: Failed dependencies: >>> xorg-x11-deprecated-libs is needed by nvu-1.0-1_nokde.rhel4.fs.i386 >> any way to resolve this problem , please ? >> >> PS i know fc4 or rhel4 is not fc5 :-p ; but ,... never know :) > > This is a poorly-made RPM, with an explicit library package name > dependency. The libraries you need are almost certainly available in FC5 > but in differently-named packages. The necessary library dependencies > should be automatically generated at package build time and the > xorg-x11-deprecated-libs dependency is redundant (and in this case, > harmful). > > If that's the *only* dependency that rpm complains about, you'll > probably find that it works if you install it using the "--nodeps" > option to RPM. But it would be better to get the packager to fix the > package so that it doesn't have this dependency in the first place. > > Paul. > I found that the nvu rpm (nvu-1.0-0.1.i386.rpm) that I found on rpmfind.net installed without problem. It's different from the one available from nvu.com which I also couldn't install. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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