Stuck in rpm hell

**Pantheus** · 10-30-2003, 10:32 PM

I thought I knew my way around rpm but here is a new trick for this old dog, and I need help.

I'm trying to upgrade my Pan

Code:

[root@ken /home/ken/gzips]rpm -Uhv /home/ken/gzips/pan-0.14.2-2.i386.rpm
warning: /home/ken/gzips/pan-0.14.2-2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
        libaspell.so.15 is needed by pan-0.14.2-2
[root@ken /home/ken/gzips]whereis libaspell.so.15
libaspell.so: /usr/lib/libaspell.so.10 /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.15 
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/usr/local/lib/libaspell.so

depends needed, but clearly THERE

wtf? and how to recover?

TIA,

Ken

**pbharris** · 10-30-2003, 10:44 PM

Ken!!
How are you - quite well I hope

on to the problem - the fact that the lib needed is in /usr/local tells me that there is a good chance that this was not added by an RPM, but perhaps by a tarball or something. to verify this try a rpm -qf /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.15 and if it comes back that this is not owned by anyone we can be positive of this.

that said i would do a mighty rpm -Uhv --nodeps /home/ken/gzips/pan-0.14.2-2.i386.rpm and install it that way.

Be sure that /usr/local/lib is listed in the file /etc/ld.so.conf and you have run ldconfig since it was installed.

hth
paul

**Pantheus** · 10-31-2003, 01:00 AM

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=8038;start=0#msg73225 date=1067557458]
Ken!!
How are you - quite well I hope

[/quote]

Doing super, Paul, thanks for asking

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=8038;start=0#msg73225 date=1067557458]
on to the problem - the fact that the lib needed is in /usr/local tells me that there is a good chance that this was not added by an RPM, but perhaps by a tarball or something. to verify this try a rpm -qf /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.15 and if it comes back that this is not owned by anyone we can be positive of this.
[/quote]

;D We can be positive of this

Code:

[root@ken /home/ken]rpm -qf /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.15
file /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.15 is not owned by any package

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=8038;start=0#msg73225 date=1067557458]
that said i would do a mighty rpm -Uhv --nodeps /home/ken/gzips/pan-0.14.2-2.i386.rpm and install it that way.
[/quote]

Indeed it did install that way but this whole exercise was to gain the aspell that was added to the 2.2 but alas I'll live without that for now

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=8038;start=0#msg73225 date=1067557458]
Be sure that /usr/local/lib is listed in the file /etc/ld.so.conf and you have run ldconfig since it was installed.
[/quote]
Indeed it is listed:

Code:

[root@ken /home/ken]cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/qt-3.0.5/lib
/usr/lib/wine
/usr/lib/mysql
 
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
/usr/lib/qt2/lib
/usr/lib/sane

and I did [root@ken /home/ken]ldconfig
for all that was worth. ;D
[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=8038;start=0#msg73225 date=1067557458]
hth
paul
[/quote]

As usual, Paul it was great help, and super seeing you, again. THANKS !

Ken

**pbharris** · 10-31-2003, 04:45 AM

hi Ken,
I think that extra line between the mysql and local/lib may be a problem, once i had an extra white space charactor and nothing past it worked - took a good two days to figure out wth was going on.

/usr/lib/mysql

/usr/local/lib

**Pantheus** · 10-31-2003, 07:27 AM

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=8038;start=0#msg73231 date=1067579126]
hi Ken,
I think that extra line between the mysql and local/lib may be a problem, once i had an extra white space charactor and nothing past it worked - took a good two days to figure out wth was going on.

/usr/lib/mysql

/usr/local/lib
[/quote]

Great thought, Paul

But in this case it didn't help one iota ... still the same funky message, and that darn aspell and the libs are a mess with some in rpm and one a tarball only... and depends of /many/ things needing different versions of some of the libs.

Oh, well the app works, and I didn't have the spello checker before I "upgraded", so not having it after isn't the end of anything, even if the author/maintainer added it.

One of these days I'll rpm it with -e --allmatches and straighten the mess out, but it isn't now a priority.

btw, I really like Pan as a news reader... kudos to Charles Kerr for the outstanding job he does to keep it in constant flux with upgrades...a super news reader!

Thanks for your help, Paul.

Ken