python and bittorrent dependencies
 

When I attempt to install bittorrent I get the following error message:

[blah@localhost Desktop]$ rpm -i bittorrent-3.4.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm
warning: bittorrent-3.4.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 26752624
error: Failed dependencies:
python-base >= 2.3 is needed by bittorrent-3.4.2-1mdk
python-base is needed by bittorrent-3.4.2-1mdk

I can type "python" to get the version and I find:

Python 2.3.3 (#1, May 3 2004, 02:57:26)
[GCC 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.


So I do have an appropriate python version... but I need some help figuring out how to bypass this error. I'm a newbie.

Appreciate the help:

James

Maybe you installed python 2.3.3 from source, rather than through rpm. Try rpm -q python to check what version rpm thinks it's got.

You could also try using the --nodeps flag which tells rpm not to bother doing a dependency check before installing. This might result in having an installed version of bittorrent which doesn't work (if the problem is something else, like a location or permissions issue) so you might have to deinstall it to tidy up.

thanks for the quick response. When I type the following I get:

[jkassemi@localhost jkassemi]$ rpm -q python
python-2.2.3-7

which is interesting. I thought that if I compiled the source code (./configure, make, make install) that it would install the program for me... hmmm... so what do I need to do exactly?

Thanks,
James