FC4 failed dependence on ORBit-devel-0.5.17-15.i386.rpm

[Rex Dieter]

Gavin Li wrote:
> I want to install this ORBit-devel rpm, but it dependence on 
> ORBit =1:0.5.17
> libIDL-0.6.so.0
> 
> I can't found rpm of "ORBit =1:0.5.17" and "libIDL-0.6.so.0", but I found
> libIDL-devel-0.8.5-2.i386.rpm, I installed it, and it creates
> /usr/lib/libIDL-2.so.0.0.0,

yum install ORBit-devel
will install it, and pull in any needed dependancies.

> Then, I have to download libIDL-0.6.8.tar.gz from
> http://andrewtv.org/libIDL/ and compile & install it: 
> tar -zxf libIDL-0.6.8.tar.gz
> cd libIDL-0.6.8
> ./configure
> make
> make prefix=/usr/lib install

Mistake.  Now you have foreign/non-rpm binaries on your system.

> And I tried to install ORBit-devel rpm, and failed on the same dependence
> errors.

And how is rpm to divine about items not installed via rpm?

-- Rex