On Thursday 16 January 2003 02:29 am, anthony baldwin wrote: > >No... RPMS can not satisfy dependencies from source installed > > software. If an rpm has a dep, you must install an rpm to fix > > it. > > Really? that seems kinda silly to me...I thought rpm was just a rh > self-extracting way of packaging, and when installed, the same code > was installed as if compiled from source. guess that shows what I > know. It is like compiled from source but rpms look for dependencies in the rpm database. If you are sure the dependencies are satisifed then install with the --nodeps flag. > $ rpm -ql $javarpm > rpmq: no arguments given for query > [tony@localhost programs]$ > > There is a nice little howto found here: > >http://www.halley.cc/ed/linux/howto/ > > Hmmm...I just did this: > $ rpm -ivh j2re-1_4_1-rc-linux-i586.rpm > and got this: > error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not > permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > [tony@localhost programs]$ This is a permission issue. You normally need to be root to install from rpms. Once your java is installed add to your environment something like: JDK_HOME=/usr/java JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export JDK_HOME JAVA_HOME CLASSPATH PATH The above is for the jdk so YMMV. Then go to Tools->Configure->OpenOffice.org->Security to turn on Java -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only of the front sight. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
