I'm running Redhat AS 3. Can anyone tell me why rpm can't find these
files? They're all installed in /usr/X11R6/lib.


[root@gecko jwb]# rpm -iv xscreensaver-4.18-3.i386.rpm
warning: xscreensaver-4.18-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8
error: Failed dependencies:
libXinerama.so.1 is needed by xscreensaver-4.18-3
libXss.so.1 is needed by xscreensaver-4.18-3
libXxf86misc.so.1 is needed by xscreensaver-4.18-3
libXxf86vm.so.1 is needed by xscreensaver-4.18-3
[root@gecko jwb]# find /usr/lib -name libXinerama.so.1 -print
[root@gecko jwb]# find /usr/ -name libXinerama.so.1 -print
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1

[root@gecko jwb]#

And all installed from official DeadRat rpms?

RPM doesn't give a hoot about the presence of
a file, it cares about its database. If the file isn't
mentioned there (or in a different version) it's
not installed. Period.

You can try to force an install, but I wouldn't
recommend it.


Cheers,
Tink

I'm pretty sure they are not from a regular distribution.

Is there any way to kludge (fix) rpm to see them?

I don't know - I don't use rpms (or rpm based
distros, for that matter).

Probably there's a way, you could (if it was
installed from source) try to use something like
checkinstall or rpmbuild to create an rpm of it
after the deed, which would then allow to update
the rpm database.


Cheers,
Tink

...would welcome comments from anyone that actually uses rpms :P