[Xastir] RH9 compile problems

Tue Oct 21 09:54:44 EDT 2003

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Glad you got it up, Jacob!

73, gerry

Jacob Tennant wrote:
> I just got my RedHat9 system to compile 1.2.1 last night after I added
> the gcc packages and went into the xwindows developers section of the
> package update screen on the install cd's and added EVERYTHING in its
> section. After that everthing went smoothe all of the way and it is up
> and running.
> 
> And trust me, I am no linux guru! Just played around till I got it
> working...
> 
> Jacob Tennant  K8JWT
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 03:05, Orrin Winton wrote:
> 
>>I went to /var/lib/rpm, removed __db.001, __db.002,
>>and __db.003, ran 'rpm --rebuilddb' which took 
>>several minutes.  It ended with:
>>
>>error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove:
>>Device or resource busy
>>
>>Then i tried the compile routine again for 1.2.1
>>and still got:
>>
>>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llcms
>>
>>I'm about at the point of wiping the hard disk
>>and re-installing RH9.  How do i wipe the HD?
>>I was told (by the person who build the box and
>>loaded RH9 onto it) that he booted off the CD drive
>>to load RH9.
>>
>>Also, is the source for 1.2.0 still available?
>>If none of this works, i want to download 1.2.0
>>again and just use that.  
>>
>>orrin wn1z
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>From: Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
>>To: Byron Smith <wa6ylb at theworks.com>
>>Cc: oakenshieldd at lycos.com, xastir at xastir.org
>>
>>
>>>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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