Re: RPM Issues

Mark LaPierre writes:

Hey Y'all,

I'm having a problem installing a package with rpm. rpm is telling me that I need some dependencies that I already have. Here's what I get:

[root@mushroom Desktop]# rpm -ivh graphiteone-*
error: Failed dependencies:
        libGLU.so.1 is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
        libstdc++.so.5 is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
        libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
        libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586

libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2) is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586

[root@mushroom Desktop]#

[mlapier@mushroom lib]$ pwd
/usr/lib
[mlapier@mushroom lib]$ ls | grep GL
libGL.so
libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1.2
[mlapier@mushroom lib]$ ls | grep libstdc

What ls tells you is completely and utterly irrelevant. If you did not install a library via RPM, then RPM doesn't know anything about it. The correct way to check a given dependency would be:

$ rpm -q --whatprovides 'libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2)'
no package provides libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2)

That's the answer you get on Fedora 8.

How can I resolve this?

Always use rpm to install packages. Do not manually compile and install anything yourself. Those graphiteone rpms are probably built for a different Linux distro, and not your version of Fedora. You cannot fix this by manually hacking things around, randomly.

To clean up your system and make it stable again:

* Remove everything you've installed manually

* Prepare and install rpm packages for everything that you want to install

Basically, once you've compiled and installed something manually, on a rpm-based Linux distribution (not just Fedora), you no longer have all of your software dependencies tracked by rpm, and you can no longer use rpm to manage your system.

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