Re: [Xlog-discussion] Installing XLog on Mandrake 9.2

[w9ya]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 12:05 am, w9ya wrote:
> Hey Doug;
>
> Most likely there is something wrong with one or more of the Mandrake
> packages. I sell Mandrake and it is goofy as of late in areas such as this.
> Also for the arch-linux distro I package both hamlibs and xlog and I did
> not have a problem with doing this at all like what you are seeing. I used
> the (already) packaged expat-1.95.7, which does NOT supply a libexpat.so.1
> per say. (It supplies a /usr/lib/libexpat.so..0  ->  Which is, as you might
> suspect, a symlink to /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0.)
>
> So.....I would suggest you make a symlink from the missing libexpat.so.1 to
> what is actually extent from the installed libexpat package you already
> have and see if that might work.

Oh yeah, don't forget to run, um, /sbin/ldconfig as root user after making the 
symlink.

I also checked and the "96" version of expat uses 0.4.0 as the actual shared 
lib you will be symlinking "to". I dunno if this will work as advertised, but 
it is worth a shot I suspect.

>
> Something similar might have to be done for the hamlib issue as well.
>
> I said earlier that these kind of things are starting to happen alot with
> Mandrake, which is very sad. The good side of things, is that there are
> LOTS of other good distros to choose from. (I use 6 different distros
> myself for the six machines in my office.....hi hi, and among them is
> Mandrake, although I am not sure for how much longer I will be doing that).
>
> Oh yeah, one last thought; You ARE using mdk.rpms right ? Um, maybe this
> should have been the very first question, as Mandrake has long since
> usually needed rpms made just for it, and not those for suse or red
> hat/fedora rpms.
>
> Vy 73;
>
> Bob
> w9ya
>
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 09:30 pm, Doug / K0ZU wrote:
> > I have tried to install XLog on Mandrake 9.2 and have encountered the
> > following errors:
> >
> > I was advised that I needed two libs so I satisfied one lib with the
> > hamlib-1.1.4-1.i386 rpm
> >
> > the other dependancy is
> >
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libexpat.so.1 is needed by xlog-0.9-1
> >         libhamlib-1.1.4.so.1 is needed by xlog-0.9-1
> >
> >
> > so I downloaded and executed expat-1.95.7-1.i386.rpm and now I get the
> > following messages:
> > address@hidden k0zu]# rpm -ivh expat-1.95.7-1.i386.rpm
> > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >         file /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 from install of expat-1.95.7-1
> > conflicts with file from package libexpat0-1.95.6-4mdk
> >         file /usr/include/expat.h from install of expat-1.95.7-1
> > conflicts with file from package libexpat0-devel-1.95.6-4mdk
> >         file /usr/lib/libexpat.a from install of expat-1.95.7-1
> > conflicts with file from package libexpat0-devel-1.95.6-4mdk
> >         file /usr/lib/libexpat.la from install of expat-1.95.7-1
> > conflicts with file from package libexpat0-devel-1.95.6-4mdk
> >         file /usr/lib/libexpat.so from install of expat-1.95.7-1
> > conflicts with file from package libexpat0-devel-1.95.6-4mdk
> >
> >
> > I tried to uninstall the earlier version of this lib and ot the
> > following errors:
> >
> > address@hidden k0zu]# rpm -e libexpat0-1.95.6
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libexpat1_95 is needed by (installed) perl-XML-Parser-2.34-1mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) libfontconfig1-2.2.1-6mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) fontconfig-2.2.1-6mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) pango-1.2.5-2mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) gtk+2.0-2.2.4-2mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) libwmf-0.2.8-4mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) libwmf0.2_7-0.2.8-4mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) koffice-1.3-0.beta3.6mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > libkoffice2-1.3-0.beta3.6mdk libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > apache2-mod_php-2.0.47_4.3.2-2mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) perl-XML-Parser-2.34-1mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) evolution-1.4.4-8mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) vte-0.11.10-2mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > gnome-control-center-2.4.0-1mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-2mdk libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > libopenh323_1-1.12.0-3mdk libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > libpwlib1-1.5.0-14mdk libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > gedit-2.4.0-1mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) mrproject-0.9.1-4mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) screem-0.6.2-4mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) wv-0.7.4-1mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) gnumeric-1.2.0-1mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) libxfree86-4.3-24.1.92mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > apache2-common-2.0.47-6.3.92mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) XFree86-4.3-24.1.92mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.47-6.3.92mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > apache2-mod_ssl-2.0.47-6.3.92mdk
> >         libexpat.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> > libkdebase4-3.1.3-79.1.92mdk libexpat0 = 1.95.6 is needed by (installed)
> > libexpat0-devel-1.95.6-4mdk
> >         libexpat0 is needed by (installed)
> > apache2-mod_php-2.0.47_4.3.2-2mdk
> >
> >
> >
> > Now what do I need to do?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Doug / K0ZU
> >
> >
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