Hi,

I'm trying to install Open Office .Org RPMs on Zenwalk Linux 5.2 and, since Zenwalk doesn't come with the "rpm" command, I had to install it from a community repo package. When I run the installation, it just wizzes through it and at the end it claims that there were errors in the installation. When I check the details, it all seems to stem from the JRE installation which seems to think I don't have coreutils installed:

error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/basename is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/cat is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/cp is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/gawk is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/grep is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/ln is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/ls is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/mkdir is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/mv is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/pwd is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/rm is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/sed is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/sort is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/touch is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/usr/bin/cut is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/usr/bin/dirname is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/usr/bin/expr is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/usr/bin/find is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/usr/bin/tail is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/usr/bin/tr is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/usr/bin/wc is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs
/bin/sh is needed by jre-1.6.0_11-fcs

Thanks in advance

This seems to happen with other software as well when Java engines are involved. I had it recently with a Java-based accounting tool. In my case 'sed' was missing, and the Java app was looking for it in /usr/local/bin. I had it actually in my /usr/bin directory, so I made a softlink for it, but even that didn't solve the situation for me.

With OpenOffice it should be easier. In your case I would ignore the RPM package, and rather install the tarball version. And even there you should have the option to ignore the Java-related parts (most of OpenOffice can do without, I guess).

Anyway, if someone comes up with a universal explanation why Java engines play so difficult, that would be nice.

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