 | | | confused about rpm dependencies | confused about rpm dependencies 2004-02-03 - By Stuart Sears
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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 19:00, Eric Evans wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I 'm a newcomer to Red Hat and I 've just installed Linux v. 9. I 'm trying
> to figure out a confusing problem with rpm dependencies and I 'm hoping that
> someone out there can help clarify things for me.
>
> I 'm trying to install a package with rpm, and in the installation I get
> error messages about failed dependencies, saying that libtcl8.3.so is
> needed and libtk8.3.so is needed. But I actually have both of those
> libraries. They are installed in /lib and also in /usr/local/lib. So I 'm
> not sure why rpm is not seeing that the libraries are there. They were not
> installed as packages though. Do they have to be installed as packages in
> order for rpm to recognize them?
yes, is the short answer. rpm reads its own database (in /var/lib/rpm).
Could you not find rpm packages for tcl/tk? They 're in the base distro IIRC.
(the 'Sessions ' menu in gdm is written in tcl/tk I think).
The Stuff in /usr/local/lib you installed yourself, right? (RH puts nearly
everything in /usr).
>
> Thanks very much,
> Eric
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Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
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