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Tue Oct 21 06:09:53 EDT 2003

>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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>> >> 
>> >> Byron Smith
>> >> wa6ylb at theworks.com
>> >> 
>> >> http://www.theworks.com/~wa6ylb
>> >> 
>> >> What was the best thing before sliced bread?
>> >> 
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>> >Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu
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>> >
>> >
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