Problems with install on RH9 with XD2

[Johan Sch]

ATTENTION : Robert Heller...

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:58:52 -0400
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> In message <20040709181446.6a4d0948 at Workstation>, Johan Sch writes:
> >On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:54:26 -0700 (PDT)
> >sridhar pandurangiah <sridharpandu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> After problems with the RPMS downloaded from
> >> sourceforge I was told to use the RPMS at 
> >> 
> >> http://people.redhat.com/notting/gnucash/
> >> 
> >> I downloaded the following
> >> 
> >> gnucash-1.8.8-0.9.i386.rpm 
> >> gnucash-backend-postgres-1.8.8-0.9.i386.rpm 
> >> 
> >> from the above site and tried installing them. I get
> >> the following error messages.
> >> 
> >> if i install the postgress package first I get the
> >> this error
> >> unlocatable package                     required by
> >> gnucash=1.8.8                          
> >> gnucash-backend-postgres
> >> 
> >> if i install the GNUcash package first I get the this
> >> error
> >> unlocatable package                     required by
> >> gnucash=1.8.1                          
> >> gnucash-backend-postgres
> >> 
> >> Is there something wrong? I use RH 9 with Ximian
> >> Desktop 2. Checked versions of GUPPI, GUILE, GWRAP and
> >> SLIB on my Linux box and they are up to date
> >> 
> >> Need help. DESPERATE!!
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> 
> >> Sridhar Pandurangiah
> >
> >You sure you got all the packages.
> >Sorry can not help you with which packages you require. Using Mdk.
> >
> >If so, you may do the following..
> >
> >rpm -Uvh rpm1 rpm2 rpm3 rpm4
> >
> >This means all on one line following each other by a space. The sequence does 
> >not matter, rpm will now know all this packages are related and install in the
> > right sequence.
> >
> >I have done this many a time without fail.
> >
> >Importend . all the packages required must be on the line.
> 
> A 'trick' I use when dealing with multiple / circular RPM dependencies is
> to create a scratch directory and acclumulate the RPMs there.  Also the
> --test option is useful.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> 	mkdir newGNUCASH
> 	mv gnucash-1.8.8-0.9.i386.rpm newGNUCASH/
> 	mv gnucash-backend-postgres-1.8.8-0.9.i386.rpm newGNUCASH/
> 	rpm -hUv --test newGNUCASH/*.rpm
> 
> If this complains, then you would do something like:
> 
> 	wget http://.../foo-package-1.2.3.i386.rpm
> 	mv foo-package-1.2.3.i386.rpm newGNUCASH/
> 	rpm -hUv --test newGNUCASH/*.rpm
> 
> Repeating the last three steps as needed (replacing 'wget' with ncftpget
> or whatever you use to actually fetch the RPMS).  This presumes that you
> can manage to get binary RPMs suitable for your system.  It gets lots
> more fun if you need to re-build from source.  Eventually, the 'rpm -hUv
> --test newGNUCASH/*.rpm' step will stop complaining, and you can then
> do:
> 
> 	sudo rpm -hUv newGNUCASH/*.rpm
> 
> To install/upgrade all of the bits and pieces.  The rpm command itself
> will sort out circular dependencies on its own, so long as all of the
> pirces are there for it to sort things out from.

> Robert Heller                        ||InterNet:   heller at cs.umass.edu
>
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Hi Robert,

KINDLY remove your REPLY TO in your mailer. This now causes replies to go your way and not the list please.

Thanks for your info . as usual in linux . there is so many different ways to reach the same point. What is importend that it must work for you and that you feel comfortable with it.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Regards
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Johan Sch
Registered Linux User #330034
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