[plug] rpms and dependencies

[Buddrige, David]

Hi Barbra,

What the system is telling you is that you haven't installed a library that
your program depends on.  Thus you must install the required library before
you can install the software you currently want to install...

best bet is to find out what rpm contains the library (in this case
libncurses.so.3.0) and then install it, then your install should go fine...

cheers

David Buddrige... 8-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Robson [mailto:robson at cwr.uwa.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, 2 December 1999 15:09
To: plug at linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] rpms and dependencies


This is my first email to this list, so hi everyone.

I am new to RedHat and seem to be having a little more trouble
installing new packages than I did with Debian, possibly
because the directory setup is a little different.

Here's an example:

  #rpm --install frotz-2.32-4.i386.rpm
  error: failed dependencies:
          libncurses.so.3.0 is needed by frotz-2.32-4

  #locate libncurses
  /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.2
  <snip>
  /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libncurses.so.3.0
  
  #rpm --nodeps --install frotz-2.32-4.i386.rpm
  #^D

  %frotz
  frotz: error in loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.3.0: cannot
  open shared object file: No such file or directory

What is the appropriate thing to do?
 ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.2 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.0   ?
 ln -s /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libncurses.so.3.0
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.0   ?
Use a tarball instead of the rpm?

Thanks in advance,

Barbara Robson