Re: Windowmaker, GNOME and failed deps on old libs? Please help.

["Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: John N. Alegre <listhub libros andante mn org>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Cc: <wm-user windowmaker org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 10:21 PM
Subject: Windowmaker, GNOME and failed deps on old libs? Please help.


> Ok I need some advise.
>
> I run WindowMaker and GNOME. I went to install
WindowMaker-0.51.2-1.i386.rpm.
> To do this I needed libungif-4.1.0-1
>

Ok, that's normal.

> I uninstalled (rpm -e) all the gnome packages, upgraded libungif-4.1.0-1,
and
> then went to reinstall the GNOME packages.  I get a failed dep on the old
> version of libungif
>

Why did you have to uninstall GNOME? You could have just upgraded libungif
and other needed libraries without loosing GNOME functionality...

> [root zaragoza inst_gnome]# rpm -ivh --test imlib-1.9.4-1.i386.rpm
> failed dependencies:
>         libungif.so.3 is needed by imlib-1.9.4-1
>
> it is looking for the old version of libungif.
>

No, imlib is saying that it needs libungif installed FIRST... you should
have gone ahead and installed libungif... If imlib still complains just
create a symlink from the new version to the file version it is looking for
and everything will be fine.

> Is there anything short of --force that will make this work?  Going to
> filewatcher.org, I find imlib-1.9.4-1.i386.rpm is the most recent version
of
> imlib.  Will a new rpm be available that is aware of the new libungif-4.1
> library?
>
> How do gurus solve such a Catch-22?
>

By the process I just outlined... sometimes to make an older app function
you'll need to make a "soft" link to the file version the app is looking
for.

Let's say that you have /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 but no /usr/lib/libungif.so.3

you could

ln -s /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 /usr/lib/libungif.so.3

and away you go...

-JMS
opjose ex-pressnet com