Re: trouble installing swarm on redhat

[Paul Johnson]

Paul Box wrote:
> Well, I figurued I'd better report to the list what it took to get this 
> working.   I still (I confess) do not understand the workings of rpms. I did 
> use the up2date utility, and got a completely up2date version of redhat.  I 
> then tried installing the newest swarm rpms 
> (swarm-2.1.132.20020309-1Arch.i386.rpm), and did find the dependency problems 
> that Paul J warned me about.
>
> Particularly annoying was trying to install blt from the rpms 
> (blt-2.4g-5.i386.rpm) --

You had the wrong blt! The one distributed ON THE RH DISK! is:
$ rpm -q blt
blt-2.4u-7

> I got a message saying that blt depended on tcl8.0 
> and tk8.0-- and I had tcl/tk8.3 of both already installed!  

Right. You got that because it was an antique that worked with the old 
tcl/tk.  Since you've built blt, you know that it is built in the source 
tree of tcl/tk, so if you install blt, it has to be from the same 
edition of tcl/tk as you have.

Once you have blt as on the RH disk, (that goes with their tcl/tk), 
along with XFree86-devel and glibc-devel,  here are the only steps that 
are necessary.

1. Install hdf5 (there are rpms for that)

rpm -Uvh hdf5.xxx.rpm

2. Upgrade libpng.  (I upgraded Emacs on my system, which required a 
libpng upgrade, and as a result my Swarm rpm will ask for it. I have the 
libpng rpms available.

3. Install swarm

rpm -Uvh swarm.xxx.rpm


> I am using redhat 7.2 on a dell inspiron notebook.  The moral here, I 
> believe,is to have the latest version of everything that you can, no?

I'd say the moral is "If you are stubborn enough, you can build swarm on 
your own."  Honestly, I think it is great you fought through all those 
details, but you have got a very hard-to-maintain system now. No RPM 
upgrades for swarm, gcc, blt, and who knows what not.  I wonder if you 
had found blt on the RH cd, would any of that hassle have been necessary.

> I would still like to know what I was doing wrong when I went the rpm route-- 
> that will probably save time somewhere down the road, and I really would like 
> to understand better how to use them, since Paul J has so kindly taken the 
> time to provide them.
>
> Thanks for the input.

> // Paul Box



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