suse rpm

[Gary Bickford]

Never mind.  The installation from rpm appears to actually run, despite the ldconfig
problems noted.  I also forgot to use -U, so the old version wasn't deleted but
that's pilot error.
GB

Gary Bickford wrote:

> Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> > Gary Bickford writes:
> > > I'm running Suse 6.4, upgraded from 6.3.  I tried installing g-wrap from the
> > > but rpm complains that we need 'guile-devel'.  I have guile 1.3.4.  I can't f
> > > guile-devel as an independent entity.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Did guile come with SuSE? If so, they should have included a guile-devel
> > package as well.
>
> Sorry about the delay - I just got back from a trip.  Instead of pursuing this, I
> went to helixcode and got the gnucash-1.4.2-0_helix_1.i386.rpm and attempted to
> install.  It thought a long while, then returned a series of errors, all from
> ldconfig, for example:
>
>      /sbin/ldconfig: Input file /usr/lib/libxml.so not found.
>
> Upon inspection, I see that in every case the problem is that the libfile is a
> symlink to an older version of the actual lib file installed.  For example:
>
>      garyb@twobit:/usr/lib > ls -l libxml*
>      -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       337134 Nov  8  1999 libxml.a
>      -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          561 Nov  8  1999 libxml.la
>      lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           15 Apr  7 05:10 libxml.so ->
>      libxml.so.1.7.3
>      lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           15 May 19 12:26 libxml.so.1 ->
>      libxml.so.1.8.6
>      -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       393240 Mar 24 12:28 libxml.so.1.8.6
>
> There's only about 8 of these problems, so I can manually relink them but before I
> do I wondered if there was a problem with doing that, or if I should modify the
> rpm instead (a thing I have not done before) to use the "so.1" links which all
> seem to point to the right place, or if there is a deeper/larger issue I'm not
> aware of.
>
> Thanks folks,
> GB
>
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