On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:10:48 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > Hello there, > > I have the package katapult > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196262 The download location is inaccessible, so I cannot comment on the package (Resolving beta.glwb.info... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.), but read on. > rpmlint asks me to put the static libraries in -devel, which I did. > Now I have katapult and katapult-devel > > during installation, I fell on > > root(i386)[0]$rpm -ivh katapult-* > error: Failed dependencies: > libkatapult.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386 > libkatapultcatalog.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386 > libkatapultdisplay.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386 > > the katapult package needs > %{_libdir}/lib%{name}.so > %{_libdir}/lib%{name}catalog.so > %{_libdir}/lib%{name}display.so > to install This doesn't match above failed dependencies. Look closer. The katapult package requires the *.so.0 sonames, not the *.so > > how can I ask katapult to pull katapult-devel as dependency ? Don't. It sounds wrong. There is a packaging error or library naming mistake here somewhere. Can you make available the src.rpm in a working location? Or post the output of "rpm -qlvp" for both binary builds.