advice on dependencies installing from rpm

banj0 · 05-02-2006, 08:21 PM

I want to use a program that is available to linux only as an rpm or deb package. I installed it using "rpm2tgz" and "installpkg". Installed but will not run, no suprise.
I then used Kpackage to check the dependencies of the rpm and got the list shown below. This can't be correct?? That is a lot of stuff.
What am I not understanding here, and is there a better way to check for dependencies? There is no information (readme etc.) provided in either pkg to help.

using Slackware 10.2

thanks in advance

Code:

Failed dependencies:
	/bin/sh is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libX11.so.6 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libXext.so.6 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libXft.so.2 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libXrandr.so.2 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libXrender.so.1 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.2) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libdl.so.2 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libfreetype.so.6 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libm.so.6 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libpthread.so.0 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libstdc++.so.5 is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2.1) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
	libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2) is needed by bibblepro-4.7.0-1
RESULT=0

Brian1 · 05-02-2006, 08:46 PM

That will be normal since Slack is not an RPM based distro. If you don't have the matching rpm's then it says it is not going to work even though you have the files installed. RPM uses a database to gather installed RPM's for checking your system. Either install the source or if wish to force it use the --force --nodeps option.

rpm --force --nodeps *.rpm
Not the best idea but can work.

Brian1

banj0 · 05-02-2006, 11:17 PM

thanks for the reply Brian1

Quote:

RPM uses a database to gather installed RPM's for checking your system

Ok,now I understand

Quote:

if wish to force it use the --force --nodeps option

I installed it by converting the rpm to tgz and used installpkg. Does the method you suggest make a difference and if so what?

Quote:

install the source

The software creators (Bibblelabs) for whatever reason do not provide the source, only deb and rpm binaries.
When an rpm is converted to tgz is the result the source?

Is there any way to check for the actual dependencies of this tgz or do I have to go thru the list created for the rpm and check them one by one to see if they are installed?

thanks again for the help
Brian

Brian1 · 05-03-2006, 04:46 PM

Checked it out and there is no source code. Only other thought besides the force option is to extract the contents of the rpm and placed them in the directoreis based on where the rpm was going to install them. I downloaded one of the rpm's and I am only missing libkodak libriary.

Brian1

banj0 · 05-03-2006, 06:13 PM

YES! I too noticed an error complaining about libkodakcms.so missing when I shut down xserver. So I googled "libkodakcms.so" and found this;

Quote:

When trying to run bibblepro it complains that it can not find libkodakcms.so.
So I added /usr/lib/bibblelabs/bibblepro/libs
to /etc/ld.so.conf.d
and then bibble started up .

and this;

Quote:

Actually I would say that the correct solution IS to add it to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig because ld.so.conf.d is a non-portable solution and slightly un-unix in my view.

I checked and libkodakcms.so is here;

Code:

/usr/lib/bibblelabs/bibblepro/libs

So I added that path to /etc/ld.so.conf

and ran

Code:

ldconfig

and it works!

I have no idea what the ld.so.conf is for but I will search that out later.

thanks for the help Brian1, I appreciate it!

Brian1 · 05-03-2006, 07:39 PM

Mostly it used to keep from junking up a users PATH. Also some can be in the directory /etc/ld.so.conf.d. Glad to see you got it working. It looks like a neat photo tool. May try it out someday. Not badly priced either.

Brian1