Hi, I am having a very frustrating problem where in one case I want to install an rpm and the other I want to build an rpm. In both cases it tells me that it requires a certain file, an example is one says that it needs "libglcore.so.1" for dependancy issues. They are both files that come from nvidia drivers and the thing is, I already have them on my computer. I believe that they are both in /usr/lib. Now why isn't linux seeing that I have them on my computer? Where I can link these files so that I can install and build my stuff? I am using mandrake 10 official but I don't think this is a distro specific question. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
-calimer

"one says that it needs "libglcore.so.1" for dependancy issues. They are both files that come from nvidia drivers and the thing is, I already have them on my computer. I believe that they are both in /usr/lib. Now why isn't linux seeing that I have them on my computer? "

The rpm command does not search your entire system for dependency files. It only looks in the rpm data base. If you did not install libglcore.so.1 using rpm then it will not be listed in the rpm data base. When you have a dependency that you are sure exists but is not in the rpm data base then you can install the new rpm using the --nodeps option. The rpm --nodeps -i command tells rpm to go ahead and install the rpm package regardless of what dependencies rpm may think are missing.


"Where I can link these files so that I can install and build my stuff? "

If you want to include the nvidia drivers in the rpm data base then you might be able to do that by using checkinstall. It depends on how close a nvidia driver compile procedure is to a standard compile procedure. Here is a thread on using checkinstall:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=181146

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Steve Stites

I did forget to mention that I did install those files not from rpm, but from the standard nvidia bin file I think it was. So I can use the nodep thing for the rpm I want to install (I think I did try that actually, and I think the package still failed, but I can try again, I know I did get two versions of it) but what do I do about the rpm I want to build? The rpm I want to build is just the guarddog firewall source. I want to build it since guarddog doesn't seem completely compatable with the latest linux kernel. Thank you for your time and help.
-calimer

"what do I do about the rpm I want to build? The rpm I want to build is just the guarddog firewall source. I want to build it since guarddog doesn't seem completely compatable with the latest linux kernel. "

If you want to build a source rpm then you should use the rpmbuild command. I always use checkinstall and have never used rpmbuild so the best that I can do is point you to the rpmbuild man pages.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/rpmbuild.8.html

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I have used rpmbuild many times in the past without a problem but with this one it keeps asking for a file that is part of the nvidia driver package, that I have in /usr/lib. It keeps exiting the build because it can't find that file. I did try that other RPM that I was just trying to install using the --nodeps but it crashes because of some linking deal. The file is klineakconfig. Maybe I should be posting about each one of the build/install issues in seperate posts, but I was hoping there was a folder I could place links to these files where the RPM database would actually recognize their existence. Hopefully there is something I can do. Thank you for your time.
-calimer