rpm on RedHat 7.2

[Francis J. Lacoste]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Teus Hagen wrote:
> Just some desaterous remarks tryin to install lire on Redhat 7.2
> lire seems to need also when I install the html version only to need
> the pdf libxslt stuff.

libxslt is needed both for HTML and PDF output. (PDF output has two more
requirements: jadetex and jade)

> It has nothing to do with lire but these libs clearly need de development
> rpm as well... :-(

I don't know why the -devel RPMs would be needed. When I tested it,
I was able to install the libxslt and libxml2 RPMs without their -devel
counterpart. The explanation could be that you already had installed the
-devel RPMs, you would then get a dependency problem when you upgrade
the libxslt RPM but not the libxslt-devel one. (It is probable that
libxslt-devel requires a libxslt with the same version). Remove the
-devel RPMs (if you don't need them for another purpose) before
upgrading the libxslt and libxml2 RPMs.

> So I started to rpm -U all the latest libxslt and libxml rpm's from RedHat:
> libxml-1.8.16-1.i386.rpm
> libxml2-2.4.12-1.i386.rpm
> bxml2-devel-2.4.12-1.i386.rpm
> libxml-devel-1.8.16-1.i386.rpm
> libxslt-1.0.9-1.i386.rpm
> as your Readme gave as ftp url's.
> 
> RedHat had howev er updated libxml-devel-1.8.16-1.i386.rpm with 1.8.16-2
> No problem however:
> rpm -U lire-20011205-2.noarch.rpm lire-html-20011205-2.noarch.rpm
> came back to me:
> error: failed dependencies:
>    libxslt >= 1.0.4 is needed by lire-html-20011205-2
> 

Was libxslt 1.0.9 installed prior to running that command?

> so: RedHat is not sync'ed with the latest own updates for libxslt
> and lire rpm test on latest libxslt is not ok? even when no pdf as 
> output is required.
> 
> hopefully this all is due to my alcohol percentage during X-mas:-)?
> teus
> 

Even sober, RPMs are be quite a mess ;-) 

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis at Contre.COM
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