[Xastir] RH9 compile problems

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

This is a problem with the RPM databases.  You have to go, as root, to 
/var/lib/rpm and remove the existing databases.  Then you have to do an 
'rpm --rebuilddb' to see if it'll heal.

Gerry

Byron Smith wrote:
> I've had this same problem. Once you do an UP2DATE, you can't add packages.
> I dont know why.
> 
> You go to add something, and it says its already installed.
> 
> You do an rpm -qa packagename and it says its not there. I know about 
> the exact uppercase/lowercase
> spelling when doing the -qa command.
> 
> I've tried the rpm --rebuilddb and still no joy.
> 
> Its something new to me - I'm beginning to think it has to do with
> something up2date did to the rpm stuff. I haven't discovered how to kill 
> (wipeout) the
> rpm data base and try to get RPM to rebuild it.
> 
> When I did a rpm -qs *, it showed me all the packages I manually 
> "installed" since up2date - and
> not a one of them shows up when I do the -qa command. These were ones 
> needed on the Linux rh9 laptop to attempt
> to get Xastir running on it.
> 
> 
> 
> I had this same problem with on my first go around with rh9 - the
> only thing I finally did to resolve it was reload the whole box, with 
> "everything" installed.
> And then I *never* let it do the up2date. I've briefly searched RH's site
> to see if there is anything like this, but I haven't found it yet.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> At 01:06 PM 10/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> 
>> I'm giving this another try.  Last version of
>> Xastir to compile correctly on my RH9 box was
>> 1.2.0.
>>
>> I get the following error on MAKE:
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld:  cannot find -llcms
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> ...
>> ... Error 2
>>
>> However, i do have lcms-1.10-0.8.0.i386.rpm
>> and i did:  rpm -ihv lcms-1.10-0.8.0.i386.rpm
>>
>> But when i do:  rpm -qs liblcms-1.10-0.8.0
>> the response is:  package liblcms-1.10-0.8.0 is not
>> installed.
>>
>> Was there some other step i'm supposed to do, that
>> i haven't done?
>>
>> orrin wn1z
>>
>>
>>
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> 
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