Re: way to make it work to install abiword

From: Shu Gilbert Nakamura (gilbertnakamura@netscape.net)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 03:04:32 EDT

  • Next message: Mark Gilbert: "Re: way to make it work to install abiword"

    Mark,

    Thanks for responding to my question.
    Actually, I was aware of

    --nodeps

    but I was not able to decide if this was a mighty card for the problem
    under the following situation:

    [root@localhost AbiWord]# rpm -q abiword-fonts
    package abiword-fonts is not installed
    [root@localhost AbiWord]# rpm -q libgal.so.19
    package libgal.so.19 is not installed

    With both abiword-fonts and libgal.so.19 being not installed, I am still
    not sure whether the installation of AbiWord with --nodeps get me a
    proper function of Abi and whether, to the contrary, the installation
    hurt some part of the dependency in the system.

    I think I need a little more explanation about these points?

    Gilbert

    Mark Gilbert wrote:

    >--nodeps is your friend
    >
    >On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 02:52, Shu Gilbert Nakamura wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Hello
    >>
    >>I was just trying to install the latest AbiWord
    >>abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm since I needed to write in
    Japanese.
    >>Besides, the currently installed abiword-0.7.14-7 in my Red Hat Linux
    >>7.2 has
    >>recently had a strange tendency of starting automatically at every boot
    >>time although I did
    >>not set up anything related to this; so I wanted to replace it with the
    >>latest, expecting that the installation would be a piece of cake even
    >>for persons
    >>with little knowledge of computer science. But I got the complaint:
    >>
    >>[root@localhost AbiWord]# rpm -Uvh abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm
    >>error: failed dependencies:
    >> abiword-fonts is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1
    >> libgal.so.19 is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1
    >>
    >>And I could not find these abiword-fonts and libgal.so.19 but
    >>libgal19-0.19-2.i386.rpm
    >>as the closest one to libgal.so.19. The installation of this
    package has
    >>been
    >>also incomplete:
    >>
    >>[root@localhost RHL]# rpm -Uvh libgal19-0.19-2.i386.rpm
    >>error: failed dependencies:
    >> gal >= 0.19 is needed by libgal19-0.19-2
    >>
    >>This sequence of dependency, even if I could handle, seems going on and
    >>on forever.
    >>So my conclusion is that I have been doing something wrong because the
    >>installation of
    >>AbiWord should not be that complicated. Would anyone please tell me
    what
    >>I am missing
    >>here?
    >>
    >>Regards,
    >>Gilbert
    >>
    >>
    >>
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