RPM vs source install...
Tom Diehl
tdiehl at rogueind.com
Thu Jul 8 09:54:27 UTC 2004
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> I've noticed that if an rpm needs a certain dependent file, I must
> install the rpm of that file becuase the the rpm doesn't see source
> installs for some reason.
Because it is not designed to. Rpm stores package information in a data
base. As such things compiled from source are not registered in the rpmdb.
> For example, I am trying to install the rpm
> k3b-mp3-0.11.9-0.lvn.1.2.i386.rpm. I got an error on the first try
> because I didn't have all the dependencies installed first. I found all
> but one of the dependent rpms and installed them. The last dependent
> "libi3-3.8.so.3" I could only find in a source version
> (id3lib-3.8.3.tar.gz). I did the whole ./configure, make, su, make
> install and it installed with no errors. I went to run the original rpm
> installer, but it still says I need to install "libi3-3.8.so.3." How do
> I get an rpm install to recognize a dependent file installed from
You are working way to hard. Go get yum or apt-rpm and add fedora.us AND
livna.org to the config files and install k3b. On my fc1 system I get the
following when I try to install k3b-mp3:
(tigger pts10) # yum install k3b-mp3
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora.us stable
Server: Fedora.us testing
Server: Fedora.us Unstable
Server: Fedora Core 1 base
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: Macromedia flash
Server: noarch updates
Server: Fedora Core 1 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: k3b-mp3 0.11.10-0.lvn.1.1.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]:
Exiting on user command.
(tigger pts10) #
Keep in mind I already have k3b installed but installing it was no harder
than doing "yum install k3b". You can do the same thing with apt, but I do not
use it, so I do not know the commands for it. I am pretty sure though it is
not much harder than apt get k3b-mp3.
> source? Is there a way to compile the source into an rpm file, then
> install it?
Yes, but I would recommend against doing that, especially given that all of
the k3b rpms are available already.
HTH,
Tom
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