rocks executable deleted from cluster

lmnopq · 06-03-2015, 05:20 AM

I wanted to reinstall the freetype software. When I did a

yum remove freetype

it removed all the dependent softwares as well including rocks.

Please help!

Habitual · 06-04-2015, 03:27 PM

Welcome to LQ.
Re-install freetype?

lmnopq · 06-06-2015, 04:21 AM

I installed freetype. But that does not bring back the rocks executable. How do I reinstall that? I tried installing the rock-devel rpm but it reports an error:

Failed dependencies:
/opt/rocks/bin/python is needed by rocks-devel-env-6.0-1.x86_64

What do I do now?

Habitual · 06-08-2015, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lmnopq

Code:

/opt/rocks/bin/python is needed by rocks-devel-env-6.0-1.x86_64

What do I do now?

I'd install python or check for it. Is it installed?
terminal >

Code:

python -V # and press <enter>

If it doesn't spit out "Python x.x.x" you'll need to install python before retrying the freetype package install.
Same for any other missing package.

But apt should handle this. You may be in for a long ride.
You can reinstall a package with

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall packagename.

This completely removes the package (but not the packages that depend on it), then reinstalls the package.

This can be convenient when the package has many reverse dependencies.[1]

Are you using a PPA for this rocks package? I can't find it in any of the default repos...