First encounter with dependencies...

aidan_walsh · 2004-09-09T17:06:27

Today I had my first run in with dependency errors, after several successful installations. I decided that it was time to update Gaim, as the copy that FC2 comes with by default is quite dated (0.77-6, as opposed to the modern 0.82.1). I went to the Fedora mirror site, and downloaded the approporiate rpm. Typing in the usual command (rpm -ivh), I was thrown a list of dependency errors, namely Quote: libebook.so.8 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-2 libedata-book.so.1 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-2 libedataserver.so.3 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-2 libsilc-1.0.so.2 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-2 libsilcclient-1.0.so.2 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-2 So I Google the first few, and find out that most of them are in the same package, Evolution Data Sever. I downloads that, and commence to rpm it. Same story, more dependency errors. So after another while of Googleing, I decide to hell with it, I'll get the update via yum. I tried two different variations, neither of which worked... yum update gaim and yum update gaim-0.82.1 Each time all I got was a long list of unrelated headers being downloaded... Can anybody help? Has anyone succeeded in doing this? Or even any general tips for dealing with dependencies?

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Started by aidan_walsh September 06, 2004 02:40 PM

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September 09, 2004 05:06 PM

Oh, I thought that (logically) if you were to run the program specifying a certain package, that it would download the headers for only that package and any dependency packages that need updating... I see...

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