Rpm not seen

[James Bourne]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, briery-75827 at mypacks.net wrote:

> I am trying to use a binary rpm that has a hard requirement for
> gnome-libs... I guess im out of luck then.. Unless someone has an idea??

If you can rebuild it, or get the vendor to rebuild it...

If you can't, you could try installing using rpm -i --nodeps then try to use
either compat or standard lib packages to get the libraries installed that
the binary needs..

Regards
James

>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Sep 14, 2007 2:19 PM
>> To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Rpm not seen
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:40:31 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>>> From: briery-75827 at mypacks.net
>>> Reply-To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
>>> To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
>>> Subject: Rpm not seen
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If this is the wrong list, let me know...
>>>
>>> On rhel 5 I can not find gnome-libs rpm?
>>>
>>> I did look in docs, rhel 5 dvd, rhn, did googles, etc...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help.. Or point me to the mailing list I should ask this on...
>>>
>>
>> I don't think that gnome-libs exists as a single discrete package on rhel5. I
>> think that rhel5 was a clean cutover to gnome2, which aparently did away with
>> the monolithic gnome-libs package.
>>
>> So, I guess the question now is what are you trying to do? Rebuild a source rpm
>> on rhel5, or run a binary rpm that has a hard requirement for gnome-libs?
>>
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