Re: rpm dependencies unsolvable

[Mukesh]

thanx quentin for ur detailed explaination..
it seems i solved all other dependencies for octave (atleast)..
i created the directory /etc/ld.so.conf.d but still not success..
plz help!!

------------------------- Octave problem------------------------
address@hidden OCTAVE_RPM]# cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
address@hidden ld.so.conf.d]# ls
address@hidden ld.so.conf.d]# cd -
/local_home/doc_mukesh/TOOLS/OCTAVE/OCTAVE_RPM
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
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> 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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Thanx and Regards,

Mukesh Khatri
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