[Gambas-user] RPM question

ZENODotus ZENODotus at ...323...
Tue Jun 22 23:39:02 CEST 2004


Op dinsdag 22 juni 2004 22:58, schreef Benoit Minisini:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2004 22:50, ZENODotus wrote:
> > Little question...
> > Have not much experience with programming under linux so bare with me...
> > When I make a RPM package I get two RPM packages... one noarch en one
> > src... When I try to install the src, I get no error-message but I don't
> > find the programm any where...
> >
> > If I try to install the noarch package I get the error message that he
> > can't install it because, gambas is unforfilled, but gambas is on my
> > computer... What am I doing wrong??
>
> the RPM binary package generated by the IDE relies on another package named
> "gambas". The "gambas" package is the package that include all the
> necessary stuff to run any gambas application.
>
> Rob Kudla regularly makes this package for the Mandrake, until it is
> officialy included in it. A Debian user makes it for the Debian, and SuSE
> makes its own too. I don't know for the other distributions.
>
> For example, on a Mandrake, when gambas will be included in the main or
> contrib repository, installing a package generated by the IDE will
> automatically download and install gambas if needed.
>
> But all thay thing does not work if you have compiled gambas from the
> source, because RPM does not see it. If you are in this case, you must
> install the package generated by the IDE by asking RPM to ignore the
> dependencies.
>
> Regards,

Thanks, that did it... It works fine now...

forever in your debt ;-)

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