[ale] kde 2.0.x Install

[Robert Hoffman]

I've found that many of these rpms will bomb out for various reasons. I got 
around this by downloading the src.rpms and --rebuilt them.  Use the source 
rpms for any packages that give you trouble.

Hope this helps,

-Rob


On Thursday 12 April 2001 04:58, Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
> Hello All,
> I'm scratching my head over this one.  I'm trying to install kde 2.0.x on
> a RedHat box using kernels 2.2.17 (the original one) and 2.2.12-20 (the
> current one, as I'm in the midst of a reinstall.)
>
> I downloaded the rpms from a site that mirrors kde.org.  No install docs
> to speak of, but I do know that the the qt libs, kdesupport, and kdebase
> need to be installed at a minimun.  Here's my problem:
>
> When I try a rpm -ivh qt-2.2.4-0.6x.4.i386.rpm, I receive the following
> message:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	libGL.so.1 is needed by qt-2.2.4-0.6x.4
> 	libGLU.so.1 is needed by qt-2.2.4-0.6x.4
> 	libmng.so.0 is needed by qt-2.2.4-0.6x.4
>
>
> OK, easy enough.  See below.
>
> /root]# whereis libGL.so.1
> libGL.so: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1
> /usr/local/lib/libGL.so
>
> whereis libmng.so.1
> libmng.so: /usr/lib/libmng.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libmng.so.1
> /usr/local/lib/libmng.so
>
>
> /root]# whereis libGL.so.1
> libGL.so: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1
> /usr/local/lib/libGL.so
>
>
> So, the system sees the files.  Next I straced installing
> qt-2.2.4-0.6x.4.i386.rpm: See below.
>
> Nothing too spectacular, except for two messages:
>
> "SHLVL=1", "_=/usr/bin/strace"]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>
>
> and  open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
>
> Bingo!!
>
> I poked around in /usr/share/locale/xx_CTRY/LC_MESSAGES and EVERY dir has
> a LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo   EXCEPT    en_US/LC_MESSAGES   (Notice the
> /, it's hard to see.)  This appears to be what's killing my install.
>
> I looked at multiple libc.mo files and all were of different sizes.  Did I
> miss something during my installs.  Why is the English version of this lib
> the only one missing?
>
> I apologize that this is lengthy.  I have tried to do my homework before
> coming to the list, but I'm at a loss at this point.
>
> Thanks for any advice, pointers.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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