Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc From: wiene@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de (Wilhelm Wienemann) Subject: Re: RPM not working under RedHat 4.0 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961020] Organization: private LinuX site, Kalkar/Germany Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 22:23:42 GMT On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 07:26:00 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc, Michael Mollard wrote: Hi Michael! MM: I'm running RedHat 4.0 happily on a Pentium 133. MM: I've just downloaded some of the updated RPMs from redhat, but, MM: try as hard as I may, I can't find ay instructions on where to MM: put the files in my tree structure. At the moment there are existing three (binary and src) versions of the RPM tool: RPM 1.4 = Version 1 RPM 2.0.x = Version 2 RPM 2.2.x = Version 3 and the current is RPM-2.2.7. For update packages in RedHat 4.0 you need the Version 3 of RPM. MM: Tried using RPM to upgrade the packages, but failed (can't install MM: this package) You can it install or better upgrade from the (/) root-directory. If you are upgrading to RPM-2.2.x from RPM-2.0.x (RH-Distribution 3.0.3) you must first upgrade to RPM-2.1.2 because the unresolved 'dependencies' in the RPM-2.2.x package. Again - step by step - 1. upgrading to RPM-2.1.2 with: rpm -Uvh --nodeps rpm-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm 2. upgrading to RPM-2.2.7 with: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force rpm-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm Then you are be able to install every RH-4.0 packages with the rpm tool. Good luck! MM: Please also respond by email (molm@cvxmck.edu.au) Your E-Mail address isn't correct :-((( ciao - Wilhelm -- >>>>>>>>> Wilhelm Wienemann, Amselweg 10, D-47546 Kalkar/Germany <<<<<<<< ------------>>> E-Mail: wiene@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de <<<------------ "And since you are the future keepers of everything, including music, we hope you will keep it well, with love, and in joy." (Frederick Fennell) From: pchan@cyberhighway.net (Percy Chan) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: rpm on slackware96 Date: 31 Dec 1996 03:04:51 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] WiCkEd (wicked@inch.com) wrote: : Hey, wondering if anyone out there has tried to compile rpm-2.2.10 on a : slackware 96 system. When I try to do this, this is what I get: : lib/librpm.a(install.o): In function `installArchive': : /usr/local/src/rpm/lib/install.c:666: undefined reference to `gzdopen' : /usr/local/src/rpm/lib/install.c:708: undefined reference to `gzread' : /usr/local/src/rpm/lib/install.c:780: undefined reference to `gzclose' : make: *** [rpm] Error 1 : If anyone out there has gotten a similar problem and was able to : correct without much trouble, please reply. Thanks. Get zlib.tar.gz and then when you make it you have to explicitly do a "make libz.a". By default it only creates the libz.so which is the ELF shared lib. Email me at pchan@cyberhighway.net if you have any questions. From: plang@bluewin.ch (Philippe Lang) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: rpm on slackware96 Date: 2 Jan 1997 22:48:30 GMT Organization: EPFL In article <5a9vsj$4kk$1@host-3.cyberhighway.net>, pchan@cyberhighway.net (Percy Chan) wrote: > WiCkEd (wicked@inch.com) wrote: > : Hey, wondering if anyone out there has tried to compile rpm-2.2.10 on a > : slackware 96 system. When I try to do this, this is what I get: > > : lib/librpm.a(install.o): In function `installArchive': > : /usr/local/src/rpm/lib/install.c:666: undefined reference to `gzdopen' > : /usr/local/src/rpm/lib/install.c:708: undefined reference to `gzread' > : /usr/local/src/rpm/lib/install.c:780: undefined reference to `gzclose' > : make: *** [rpm] Error 1 > > : If anyone out there has gotten a similar problem and was able to > : correct without much trouble, please reply. Thanks. > > Get zlib.tar.gz and then when you make it you have to explicitly do > a "make libz.a". By default it only creates the libz.so which is the > ELF shared lib. Right, I have also installed RPM on Slackware 3.1, in order to patch the RH Linux Library software, and I had to do the same thing. I had also a problem during the installation (make install), I had to create a folder, I cannot remember the name. Philippe