[PLUG] rpm installation help, please

[Carla Schroder]

Sandy n Rich, a valiant effort. I hate when someone's idea of help is 
"apt-get- oh you can't? too bad!"  Those Deb packages are built by human 
hands, it doesn't take much of a search to find sad forum posts of Deb users 
having similar problems.

Ethereal is a sterling example of how not to build an RPM. I've been fussing 
with it all afternoon- it's been an interesting education. To heck with the 
damned RPMs. The machines I use it on, it was installed during the original 
Linux installation. I'm going to try building from source and see what 
happens. The libs are on my test system, but not in the RPM database- seems 
like there was a thread on this not too long ago.

Carla

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 01:24 am, you wrote:
> Unfortunately, the search engine at rpmfind.net does not accept regexp and
> is not greedy. I'm realizing (since there are several openssl rpms) you'd
> actually probably be better off going to RedHat's site...
>
> http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/
>
> ...and doing a "By Keyword" search for openssl to get all related rpms.
>
> You won't discover which rpm contains libcrypto.so.2 by just using the -q
> switch. A simple query needs the package name as an argument. e.g.,
>
> [bigfish at kippered bigfish]$ rpm -q openssl-perl
> openssl-perl-0.9.6b-24
>
> You need to add the -f switch to find out which rpm carries a given file.
> e.g.,
>
> [bigfish at kippered bigfish]$ rpm -qf /bin/cat
> textutils-2.0.21-1
>
> Note that you have to fully qualify the file location.  In the case of
> libcrypto.so.2, it's a symlink...
>
> [bigfish at kippered bigfish]$ ls -l `locate libcrypto.so.2`
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Jan 22  2002 /lib/libcrypto.so.2
> -> libcrypto.so.0.9.6b
>
> ...so you'd need to...
>
> [bigfish at kippered bigfish]$ rpm -qf `locate libcrypto.so.0.9.6b`
> openssl-0.9.6b-24
>
> It turns out that libelf is packaged in its own rpm...
>
> [bigfish at kippered bigfish]$ rpm -q libelf
> libelf-0.7.0-2
>
> I'm beginning to understand why the Debian fans brag about their distro. :)
>
> Good luck,
> Sandy
>
> On Mon, 05 Aug 2002, Richard Steffens wrote:
> > Carla Schroder wrote:
> > > See this page, http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
> > > Down near the bottom are detailed instructions and links for satisfying
> > > dependencies. it is a pain.
> >
> > I see what you mean.
> >
> > Sandy Herring wrote:
> > > Note that some of the failed dependencies (like libpcap) are packaged
> > > in their own rpm while others (like libcrypto) are part of another
> > > package...
> >
> > I found libpcap-0.7.1-2.i386.rpm and successfully installed it. I tried:
> >
> > rpm -i ethereal-0.9.5-2.i386.rpm
> >
> > again, and the libpcap error message is gone. One down, four to go.
> >
> > I found openssl-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm and ran
> >
> > rpm -Uv openssl-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm
> >
> > The system responded with:
> >
> > Preparing packages for installation...
> > openssl-0.9.6-9
> >
> > After that, I tried rpm -i net-snmp-5.0.1-5.i386.rpm and got:
> >
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > 	libcrypto.so.2  is needed by net-snmp-5.0.1-5
> > 	libelf.so.0  is needed by net-snmp-5.0.1-5
> >
> > If libcrypto.so.2 is in openssl, did I miss something with the upgrade
> > of openssl?
> >
> > After upgrading openssl, when I run rpm -q libcrypto.so I still get:
> >
> > package libcrypto.so is not installed.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dick Steffens
> > "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
> > http://rsteff.home.attbi.com/