Re: apt4rpm installation

[Carl Brown <cbsled ncia net>]

On Thursday 01 January 2004 18:52, Jason Dixon wrote:
> It's quite simple.  Just install the RPM...

# rpm -ivh apt4rpm-0.66.0-0.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        perl-XML-LibXML is needed by apt4rpm-0.66.0-0
        apt-server is needed by apt4rpm-0.66.0-0

Why I would need apt-server for a client installation is beyond me.
perl-XML-LibXML is not on the RH9 CD's. Go fish. I could install it from CPAN, 
but then it wouldn't be in the RPM database, and would still break the 
apt4rpm install unless I --force it, which I really don't want to do.

# rpm -ivh perl-XML-LibXML-1.53-1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        perl-XML-SAX is needed by perl-XML-LibXML-1.53-1
        perl-XML-LibXML-Common is needed by perl-XML-LibXML-1.53-1

I know, that's probably the wrong one, but it was the only one I could find.  
The project degenerated from there into "unable to find..." errors in the 
bowels of perl, and I decided to quit before I made a mess that I couldn't 
clean up. I've already got rpm's that won't install because they are already 
installed, and won't uninstall because they aren't installed.

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Carl Brown
Whitefield, NH USA
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