RPM Issues

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Mark LaPierre writes:
>
>> Hey Y'all,
>> 
>> I'm having a problem installing a package with rpm.  rpm is telling me that 
>> I need some dependencies that I already have.  Here's what I get:
>> 
>> [root at mushroom Desktop]# rpm -ivh graphiteone-*
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>         libGLU.so.1 is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
>>         libstdc++.so.5 is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
>>         libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
>>         libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by 
>> graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
>>         libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2) is needed by 
>> graphiteone-libs-1.3-1.i586
>> [root at mushroom Desktop]#
>> 
>> [mlapier at mushroom lib]$ pwd
>> /usr/lib
>> [mlapier at mushroom lib]$ ls | grep GL
>> libGL.so
>> libGL.so.1
>> libGL.so.1.2
>> [mlapier at mushroom lib]$ ls | grep libstdc
>
> What ls tells you is completely and utterly irrelevant. If you did not

Also libGL != libGLU

> install a library via RPM, then RPM doesn't know anything about it. The 
> correct way to check a given dependency would be:
>
> $ rpm -q --whatprovides 'libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2)'
> no package provides libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2)
>
> That's the answer you get on Fedora 8.

That's an answer you *might* get on Fedora 8 and only tells what we 
already know, no package providing libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is 
installed. A more useful answer:

$ repoquery --whatprovides 'libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2)'
compat-libstdc++-33-0:3.2.3-62.i386

Unlike rpm, repoquery knows what's available, not just installed.

The moral of the story really: use yum to install software - instead of 
"rpm -Uvh graphiteone-*" try "yum localinstall graphiteone-*", it'll work 
out the details for you if possible.

 	- Panu -