missing deps for NVU

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 08:19 +0100, LarryT wrote:
> Hi all :)
> Trying to install nvu, for fc4 rhel4 .... - :-/)
> http://www.nvu.com/download.html
> specialy this one :
> http://www.nvu.com/download/linux/1.0/nvu-1.0-RedHat_and_Fedora/nvu-1.0-1_nokde.rhel4.fs.i386.rpm
> But get failed deps message :
> > [root at Fopadix-fc5 downloads]# rpm -ivh nvu-1.0-1_nokde.rhel4.fs.i386.rpm
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         xorg-x11-deprecated-libs is needed by nvu-1.0-1_nokde.rhel4.fs.i386
> 
> any way to resolve this problem , please ?
> 
> PS i know fc4 or rhel4 is not fc5 :-p ; but ,... never know :)

This is a poorly-made RPM, with an explicit library package name
dependency. The libraries you need are almost certainly available in FC5
but in differently-named packages. The necessary library dependencies
should be automatically generated at package build time and the
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs dependency is redundant (and in this case,
harmful).

If that's the *only* dependency that rpm complains about, you'll
probably find that it works if you install it using the "--nodeps"
option to RPM. But it would be better to get the packager to fix the
package so that it doesn't have this dependency in the first place.

Paul.