Re: Help Me Please!!!!

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Luca Satolli wrote:
> Dear Gnome,
> I've download theese files from Gnome.org:
> 
[snip]
> Now I've the previous version of gnome (0.30) that comes out from RedHat
> 5.2 CD-Rom.
> When i try to install gnome files, in the same order of
> "getting_rh.shtml", It returns some errors of failed dipendence like
> this:
> 
> failed dependencies:
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-libs-0.30.1-1
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-core-0.30rh-6
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-games-0.30-3
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-media-0.30-2
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-utils-0.30-1
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnumeric-0.3-1
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
>  libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gtop-0.28-1

What does this is updating glib rather than installing it.  When you
Update (-Uvh), what RPM does is it removes all the old versions of a
package, and then installs the new one.  When you Install (-ivh) it leaves
the old packages in place, and tries to install the new one next to the
old one.  As a rule of thumb, you want to Install libraries, and Update
applications and devel packages.

For your case, I would do the following
  $ rpm -ivh glib-1.1.13-1.i386.rpm
  $ rpm -ivh gtk+-1.1.13-1.i386.rpm
  $ rpm -ivh imlib-1.9.2-1.i386.rpm
  $ rpm -ivh gnome-libs-0.99.4-3.i386.rpm
  $ rpm -ivh libgtop-0.99.2-1.i386.rpm
  $ rpm -ivh libghttp-0.99.2-1.i386.rpm
  $ rpm -ivh libxml-0.99-3.i386.rpm   (note: this wasn't on your list)
  $ rpm -Uvh <everything else>
That should get rid of errors like the one you described.

 
> I wold like know what files I've to remove, becouse trying to remove in
> the reverse order the file that comes out from the error (gtop, ggv,
> gnumeric, ...) and installing newer gnome files comes out an error on
> gnome-libs and then libPropList can't be installen (It also give a
> conflict error with Windows Maker:
> 
> /usr/include/proplist.h conflicts with file from WindowMaker-0.20.1-3
> /usr/lib/libPropList.a conflicts with file from WindowMaker-0.20.1-3
> error: libPropList-0.7.1gnome-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed

What is libPropList?  I don't see it on the FTP site.  I doubt it is
necessary.


> The terrible things is that now linuxconf, controlpanel and gimp doesn't
> start!!!!

Getting the packages glib10 and gtk+10 installed are necessary to support
older GTK+ applications (such as gimp-1.0.1), but from your list it looks
like they're in OK.  Try doing "rpm -V gimp", and see if it tells you
anything (no response means the package is fine).


Best of Luck,
-Gleef