[4950] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Remove user script?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Robinson)
Mon Nov 18 09:39:38 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:41:15 GMT
From: John Robinson <john@intelligent.co.uk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3290708D.17A69DD5@future.success.net>
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I am running RedHat 3.0.3 on my Pentium PC. I would like to install
various RPMs from the RedHat 4.0 release (specifically, tcl7.5,
tk4.1), and other third-party packages. I have downloaded the RPMs. I
typed:
[root@irvine tmp]# rpm -Uvh tcl-7.5-3.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 2 are supported by this version of RPM
[root@irvine tmp]#
I thought, oh dear, I need a newer version of RPM. I wondered what I
had at the moment:
[root@irvine tmp]# rpm --version
RPM version 2.0.3
[root@irvine tmp]#
Hey ho, I thought, I'll download something more recent. Then I tried
to upgrade to it:
[root@irvine tmp]# rpm -Uvh rpm-2.2.8-1.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 2 are supported by this version of RPM
[root@irvine tmp]#
Oh dear, I thought, maybe I'll just have to download the sources,
which I did (the .tar.gz file). I tried to configure the package:
irvine:rpm-2.2.8 $ ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for /usr/local/lib... yes
checking for /usr/local/include... yes
checking for GNU cpio... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for AIX... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gettext... no
checking for -lintl... no
configure: warning: sorry this package needs libintl.a (from the
gettext package)
checking for xgettext... no
xgettext and libintl.a don't both exist; will not build i18n support
checking for dbopen... no
checking for -ldb... yes
checking for fork... yes
checking for -lsocket... no
checking for -lz... no
checking for -lgz... yes
checking for netinet/in_systm.h... yes
checking whether cross-compiling... no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for inet_aton... yes
checking for realpath... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for getopt_long... yes
checking host system type... i586-unknown-linux
checking target system type... i586-unknown-linux
checking build system type... i586-unknown-linux
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating Makefile.inc
creating lib-rpmrc
creating lib/Makefile
creating build/Makefile
creating tools/Makefile
creating po/Makefile
creating misc/Makefile
irvine:rpm-2.2.8 $
Ooops, I thought (after I tried making the thing anyway, but got told
it couldn't find libintl.h, which is true, 'cos I don't have it), I'd
better install the gettext package from my RedHat CD. Oh dear, the
RedHat 3.0.3 CD doesn't have the gettext package. Well I'll just
download it, and install it:
[root@irvine tmp]# rpm -ivh gettext-0.10-5.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 2 are supported by this version of RPM
[root@irvine tmp]#
OK, so the question is, where do I get a RPM that *does* install
packages with a major version > 2 that doesn't need one to install
itself? Or otherwise, how do I get things up to scratch?
Thanks in advance
Yours in frustration,
John.
NB. I did buy my copy of RHL, but as part of Applixware, not in its
own right. RedHat apparently won't support me despite me having my own
genuine original RedHat CD and registration card. Bummer, eh?
--
John Robinson, IRIS Ltd, Carlinscraig, Auchencairn DG7 1QU, UK. +44 1556640 109
When my time has come I'll look back and see peace on the shoreline --Chris Rea
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