depencancies

WilliamS · 06-03-2004, 09:27 AM

I've done a mininal install of 9.1. mc works, ppp works, there is windowmaker desktop, but can't install opera 7.23, as ./configure doesn't work, and rpm -i gives a list of 18 failed dependancies, starting with missing /bin/sh, ld-linux.so.2 then 16 libxxxx.
df -h shows only 503mb remaining on hd, so maybe not good idea to install whole packages, assuming I ever find out which ones are needed.
Is it possible to 1- find these needed dependancies on 9.1 cd?
2- advise how to move them from cd to where they should be?

320mb · 06-03-2004, 12:25 PM

did you install the rpm2tgz package??
it sounds like you left out some the of required library packages also......
this normally happens when noobs do a minimal install.........you end
up not having everything you need for Slackware to work properly!!

WilliamS · 06-03-2004, 10:05 PM

I remember selecting rpm during the install (menu method), so it must be in there.
Checked with the find command, and found the supposedly missing libs, I assume where they should be.

Someone asked why slack is not more popular. Hah!

Installing a browser in Mandrake was so easy.

WilliamS · 06-03-2004, 11:49 PM

Maybe found the answer in another post:
"'I'd download, install and make a package designed for 9.1 for you but I think licq requires qt to be installed, which I lack on my desktops as I steer clear of KDE and the such."

I have opera-7.23-20031119.1-static-qt.i386-en.tar.gz and same in .rpm, so if above quote is true, it ain't gonna install nohow. Unless I install bloatware (KDE).

gnashley · 06-04-2004, 07:35 AM

The static-linked tar.gz will work fine with windowmaker.
See my HOWTO's for help on minimal installs.
www.amigolinux.org