rpm not recognising pkgs?

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:02 -0500, Douglas Frank wrote:
> This is odd.  I'm trying to install a package using redhat-config-
> packages.  This is on a RH9 box running 2.6.10 and rpm is broken; the
> workaround is to export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5.  I have no idea what
> this means, but it's easier than actually fixing rpm.  That's on the
> list, and maybe will move to the head of the queue if it's related to
> this:

Move it to the head of the queue then. All other package management
tools on Red Hat/Fedora (yum, up2date, (redhat|system)-config-packages,
apt, smart) are front ends for rpm.

> In trying to install XFree86 development, I get this (I'm not interested
> in the "doesn't exist", that's true and doesn't seem to be harmful):
> 
> [localhost bin] redhat-config-packages
> * Core references package efibootmgr which doesn't exist
> * Core references package elilo which doesn't exist
> * depcheck: package XFree86-devel needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-2 (not provided)
> * depcheck: package netpbm-devel needs netpbm = 9.24-10 (not provided)
> ('XFree86-libs', '4.3.0-2', 8)
> ('netpbm', '9.24-10', 8)
> 
> however...
> 
> [localhost bin] rpm -q netpbm-9.24-10.90.3.legacy
> netpbm-9.24-10.90.3.legacy
> 
> [localhost bin] rpm -q XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.90.55
> XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.90.55
> 
> 
> Thanks for your "you dummy!" responses.

You have installed updates onto your machine. This confuses (redhat|
system)-config-packages. Try getting yum
(http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-rh9.php) and using that. Then try:

# yum install XFree86-devel

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>