Re: finding needed files

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Sat Aug 15 1998 - 22:51:35 EDT

Quoting Harry Putnam (reader@newsguy.com):
> Often when installing an rpm, a message will come up saying a certain
> file is needed to install this particular rpm. Usually I haven't a
> clue as to where to get the file or what package it is likely to be
> in.

  Agreed it's a pain,

> Case in point running an rpm --rebuild on xforms-i386-0.88.1-1.src.rpm
> Produced these messages
>
> Requires: ld-linux.so.2 libX11.so.6 libc.so.6 libforms.so.0.88 libm.so.6
> Could not open /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/xforms-0.88.1-1.i386.rpm
>
> I thought their might be an off chance of finding where these are by
> running `rpmfind --apropos' on them though I was pretty sure that was
> really stretching a good thing to expect that to work, and it didn't.

   If instead of fetching directly the xforms rpm you would have done
and rpmfind query
  rpmfind xforms
 Rpmfind would have pointed out the correct RPMs for your machine.
In your case you're trying to install an RPM build on a glibc based system
on a libc-5 installation, it won't work without upgrading a LOT of things
(including the libc ...).

> I'd love to hear some better way. Or that their is a monster data
> base somewhere that has data like this.

  Use rpmfind or one of the rpm2html generated archive like the one
on rufus.w3.org:
   http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/

 and in your specific case:
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/contrib/hurricane/i386/xforms-0.88.1-1.i386.html

  it seems that the xforms package hasn't been generated properly,
since it doesn't exports any dependencies, unless the binaries it
install in /usr/X11R6/bin doesn't depend on any libraries ...

Try to grab another one:
  http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/xforms.html

And contact the packages authors to correct the problem.

Daniel 

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