Failed Dependencies

[tatteredpotato]

I've recently been trying to learn how to use linux, and im currently using FedoraCore 5. I also just installed Enlightenment WM and playing around with it. I was trying to install the "e fancylauncher" however i get failed dependencies, (libImlib.so.1 to be exact) Ive had failed dependencies like this before. My question is what exactly am i to do when this happens?

 

[postmortemIA]

just install approapriate package that provides that library. check if you have libImlib.so file, if yes then copy it to libImlib.so.1.

 

[pcthuglife]

become familiar with yum and life will be good: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: pcthuglife
become familiar with yum and life will be good: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

Sometimes though, you have to google around to find out what yum package actually provides that library.

 

[pcthuglife]

yum search has always worked for me. then again i don't really install too many applications on my redhat-ish machines since they just act as servers.

 

[Nothinman]

become familiar with yum and life will be good: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

I don't if I'd go so far as to say good, but it'll definitely be better than using RPM by itself.

Also I think yum has a localinstall option that lets you feed it an RPM and it'll fill in the dependencies from it's repositories, that'll probably be the easiest option here.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: BlameCanada
I've recently been trying to learn how to use linux, and im currently using FedoraCore 5. I also just installed Enlightenment WM and playing around with it. I was trying to install the "e fancylauncher" however i get failed dependencies, (libImlib.so.1 to be exact) Ive had failed dependencies like this before. My question is what exactly am i to do when this happens?

I managed to get Enlightenment WM working in Ubuntu (credit to a member who created a script on UbuntuForums.org). In my trial and error attempts before that I learned that Enlightenment 17 is under *heavy* development and not everything is working (especially together).

 

[Nothinman]

I managed to get Enlightenment WM working in Ubuntu (credit to a member who created a script on UbuntuForums.org). In my trial and error attempts before that I learned that Enlightenment 17 is under *heavy* development and not everything is working (especially together).

Yea, E17 isn't usable yet AFAIK but E16 is fine and should be in Ubuntu since it's in Debian.

 

[tatteredpotato]

My big question is what to do if yum cannot find the needed dependencies? I really dont know any advanced commands for yum. Is there something else i have to tell it?

 

[Nothinman]

My big question is what to do if yum cannot find the needed dependencies? I really dont know any advanced commands for yum. Is there something else i have to tell it?

If it can't find them you either need to find a repository to add that has them or build them yourself. One of the things that makes Ubuntu a lot easier to deal with than FC (other than yum being slow as hell) is that there's a lot more packages available in the main repositories and once you add in the universe and multiverse repositories FC can't even come close.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Ok, sry if i should already know this, but how exactly do i go about adding repositiorities?

 

[Nothinman]

Of the few times that I've messed with yum I believe the repositories give you a file that you put in /etc/yum.d or an RPM that puts the file there for you.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: BlameCanada
Ok, sry if i should already know this, but how exactly do i go about adding repositiorities?

linky

The setup described in that link is excellent and provides all the major repos. If you want to manually add repos yourself, all the major repos have their own rpm packages, but basically it just puts a .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ .