Installing any rpm package on linux.

06-04-2006

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Installing any rpm package on linux.

Hi, im new to linux when i try to install any rpm package like skype(im trying suse package) it shows this error all the time

Code:

error: Failed dependencies:
	/bin/sh is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libX11.so.6 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libXext.so.6 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libc.so.6 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libm.so.6 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libpthread.so.0 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libqt-mt.so.3 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libstdc++.so.5 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2) is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
	qt3 >= 3.2 is needed by skype-1.2.0.18-suse
RESULT=1

Im using Slackware 10.2. Could any1 help me with this? Thnx

06-04-2006	#2 (permalink)
antidrugue Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 3,213	In Slackware the right thing to do would be to convert the .rpm package to a .tgz one : Code: rpm2targz package_name.rpm Then you can install the resulting ".tgz" package. More on that here: http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php __________________ "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow." -Bruce Lee

06-04-2006	#3 (permalink)
stubbe Linux Newbie Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 143	slackware uses other package type. Slackware packages end with .tgz for its extension. If you read the error message, it's clear you're missing some libraries. You haven't install them yet. One thing that differs slackware package from rpm, that it does not check for any dependencies and does not warn you for any needed packages. So you obviously would need deep software familiarity when running slackware. rpm is included in slackware as complementary, just in case it's really needed, but not reccomended. You can use dependency ignore option if you're insisting in using rpm. or better, you can use rpm2tgz tool, to convert .rpm to .tgz and use installpkg thus it'll appear on the installed software list. Even better yet, go find precompiled slackware native binaries on linuxpackages.net. But remember this wont help you from the dependency fuss. Your software may installed without any error, but it wont run and most of the times they kept silent without throwing you any error (unless you're running it from a console) if you're missing even a single dependency package.

06-04-2006	#4 (permalink)
SLAiNTRAXx Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 6	Thnx. It worked

06-04-2006	#5 (permalink)
SLAiNTRAXx Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 6	Thnx stubbe by telling me about installpkg. It helped me alot