Common Problem with all RPM installs
I recently decided to start using linux on a second partition just for the fun of it. So far things havnt been too complicated. However im running into a problem which has me stumped. I run into a roadblock everytime I have to manually use the terminal to install an rpm. Basically I invoke the rpm with the following command:
rpm -Uvh <filename>.rpm It does its thing, complains if anythings missing...once I resolve the missing dependencies I do it again and it acts normally, gives a 100% status but it never seems to be successful. For instance, if I try to invoke the rpm using the "Install Packages" feature of Fedora 4 it tells me that source package rpms cannot be installed this way...Makes sense. But when I use the command line like the one above, it appears to work fine, but if I try to load anothr rpm(thats not a src rpm) using the "Install Packages" feature, it still says that it cannot find the needed dependancy. The world would be a much simpler place if all programs had an install rpm :-P As you can see Im new to all this, the basic question I guess is how do you install source rpms correctly? I |
If you're using Fedora use yum to install stuff - it resolves the depedencies for you. See here: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#getsoftware
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Quick question about yum. I followed that tutorial and successfully installed xmms mp3 player which leads to two questions:
1.) I used the "yum list available" command and it threw out a huge list of all the available installs, this is great, but I can only see the last 60 or so in the terminal window...is there a way to see them all? 2.) I notice that xmms-mp3 was not listed under the list of installs...how did the person doing this tutorial know to invoke "yum install xmms-mp3" when xmms-mp3 is not in the list? am I missing something? |
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Also, im using Fedora 4, so I believe its the Gnome Terminal window, it had scroll bars, but it will only allow you to scroll up to about the "s" 's in the list...Shift-PageUp doesnt go any higher either :-/ also, rpmbuild is not a recognized command on my system..."man rpmbuild" yeilds no response...
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yum install rpmbuild Code:
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