Re: rpm dependencies unsolvable

[Quentin Spencer]

Mukesh wrote:

> hi all,
> i m trying to install octave-forge 
> [octave-forge-2005.06.13-1.i386.rpm] on my system.
> i hav installed cln [cln-1.1.9-3.i386.rpm] successfully, and clean 
> most of the dependencies but not able to clear a couple of 
> dependencies for GiNaC and Octave..
> problem and system information is given below..
> plz help!!
>
>
> ------------------------- system information------------------------
> address@hidden OCTAVE_RPM]# uname -a
> Linux cosmic101 2.4.21-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:59:02 EST 2004 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> ------------------------- GiNaC problem------------------------
> address@hidden OCTAVE_RPM]# rpm -ivh GiNaC-1.3.0-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by GiNaC-1.3.0-1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> ------------------------- Octave problem------------------------
> address@hidden OCTAVE_RPM]$ rpm -ivhf octave-2.1.71-3.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        /etc/ld.so.conf.d is needed by octave-2.1.71-3
>        libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by octave-2.1.71-3
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------------RPM set i m 
> using---------------------------------
> blas-3.0-25.1.i386.rpm
> cln-1.1.9-3.i386.rpm
> fftw3-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm
> gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3.src.rpm
> GiNaC-1.3.0-1.i386.rpm
> glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
> glibc-2.3.2-11.9.src.rpm
> glibc-2.3.4
> glibc-2.3.4-2.fc3.src.rpm
> glibc-2.3.4.tar.bz2
> glpk-4.8-1.i386.rpm
> lapack-3.0-25.1.i386.rpm
> libstdc++-3.4.2-6.fc3.i386.rpm
> octave-2.1.71-12.fc4.src.rpm
> octave-2.1.71-3.i386.rpm
> octave-forge-2005.06.13-1.i386.rpm
> qhull-2003.1-2.i386.rpm
> umfpack-4.4-1.i386.rpm
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------


When David recommended that you use my packages compiled for FC3 on your 
RHEW 3 system, I thought it might work, but I was worried about this 
possibility. It looks like you may have conflicting versions of glibc in 
your list above, which could be causing the problem. The easiest way out 
of this that I can think of is to rebuild the SRPMs for GiNaC and octave 
on your system. That should be just a simple "rpmbuild --rebuild 
<SRPM>", but they both are long compiles. I suspect when you have all 
that working you may need to do the same for octave-forge as well. The 
remaining problem is the /etc/ld.so.conf.d dependency. In FC 3 and newer 
/etc/ld.so.conf contains one line: "include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf", which 
automatically includes any files put in /etc/ld.so.conf.d by RPM 
packages. I suspect this isn't supported on your system, so what I would 
suggest is creating the directory /etc/ld.so.conf.d, installing the RPM, 
and then manually copying the contents of 
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/octave-i386.conf into /etc/ld.so.conf.

This is all an unfortunate consequence of Red Hat's neglect of packages 
like Octave that are not used by a large segment of their user base. 
They kept a very old release of Octave in Fedora Core for a long time 
and allowed months to pass before releasing an update to a critically 
broken lapack library. Now that Octave is in Fedora Extras and 
maintained by someone who actually uses it (me), Fedora users can get 
more up to date versions of octave with more features available. The 
idea of a Fedora Extras repository for RHEL/RHEW releases has come up, 
but I don't know whether that's likely to happen any time soon. Even if 
it does happen, it is Fedora Extras policy not to replace packages in 
Core, so it may be simply a matter of releasing an octave-forge package 
for an old release of Octave, with no FFTW support. So, unless something 
changes, maybe Fedora is a better option than RHEL for Octave users in 
the long run.

-Quentin



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