I'm new to slackware, former mandrake(rather new too i guess). I wanted to install crossover office which was working fine with mandrake. but in slackware it came up with

/bin/sh is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libICE.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libSM.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libX11.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libXext.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libXi.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libXmu.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libXpm.so.4 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libXt.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libc.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libdl.so.2 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libm.so.6 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
libutil.so.1 is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1
/usr/bin/perl is needed by crossover-pro-3.0.0-1

is there any particular library package missing or i should install the libraries one by one??

try going to a command prompt and as root run
/sbin/ldconfig
try to install cross over now (doubt it but try and check for errors in ldconfig)

while that is working
did you do a "REALLY" minimal install of slackware?

i doubt you dont have all these libraries some are really important

check the crossover readme file and you may have to tell it where your libraries are ... they may have coded the install for rpm type distros. You might want to search cross-overs website they have a pretty good support forum and see if any other slackware users have come across this problem.

there's no error in ldconfig but the same errors came up when i'm trying to install the rpm. I installed slackware using the full installation. This is not a problem associated to cross over only, I can't install most of the programs that was running in mandrake because of libraries missing, unless it's java-based of course . I really like slackware though it's fast and all.

Thanks

Do not use RPM to install software on Slackware. It doesn't work. You can convert RPM packages to Slackware packages using rpm2tgz.

yea what rotvogel said.

rpms dont really work in slackware .... slackware uses tgz files but you will only find them on slackware mirrors and www.linuxpackages.net .... typically you have to compile from source files in slackware.

but if you want to install a rpm do
cd /path/you/want/to/create/the/tgz/file/in ie. cd /home/$USER
then:
rpm2tgz /path/to/rpm/crossover-x.x.x.rpm

this will create crossover-x.x.x.tgz in the directory you are in so now type
su
installpkg ./crossover-x.x.x.tgz

***HOWEVER***
what is the file you are trying to install crossover from i think crossover installs from a sh script like mozilla does. just run the install-crossover-standard-demo-3.0.1.sh file ... this is the demo file but check your crossover cd or what you downloaded for something like that.

it worked, thanks you two!! i just extracted them and run it as usual. I didn't know that slackware doesn't support rpm :P.

Actually Slackware supports rpms, it's just that there isn't a database with all the dependencies and installed packages (it exists but for slackware packages) so you can install using rpm but you have to pass an option to ignore dependencies. Anyway, avoid using rpms in Slackware

use rpm2targz or rpm2tgz to change it to a slackware packarge.