Hi. I recently installed X.org from www.x.org from source and everything went well, except now I do not have access to the QT version of YaST 2 and I am unable to install any program related to X in anyway (even some programs like Python wont install). I'm wondering if there is a way for me to include some sort of 'dummy' RPM file or something along these lines that will trick YaST2 and will at least allow me to install programs that depend on Xlibs (I removed it after I noticed X.org was working fine). I also will be manually installing QT, and I would like to do something similar in this situation where YaST will find my manually installed version. Is there an open source version of YaST QT? (KDE broke, so I removed everything.) I do not see a 'yast2-qt' source package in search. In short, what I want to know is, is there anyway for YaST to be able to detect programs that other programs depend on that I have installed from source? If this is not possible, I would like to know more about "System Update" and the availability of X.org from SuSE. I notice the provide .rpms for users of version 9.1, but I am using 8.2. Will "system update" update my system to SuSE version 9.2? If yes, I would gladly use the text based YaST2 as I mostly depend on that to install programs rather than install them from source. Here is the output from X -version: Release Date: 18 December 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-4GB i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux linux 2.4.20-4GB #1 Wed Apr 16 14:50:03 UTC 2003 i686 Build Date: 14 July 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present As I mentioned I'm using YaST2, any help would be greatly appreciated. AIM: Kicarus17 MSN: kidicarus19@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 23:54 -0600, kid icarus wrote:
Hi.
I recently installed X.org from www.x.org from source and everything went well, except now I do not have access to the QT version of YaST 2 and I am unable to install any program related to X in anyway (even some programs like Python wont install). I'm wondering if there is a way for me to include some sort of 'dummy' RPM file or something along these lines that will trick YaST2 and will at least allow me to install programs that depend on Xlibs (I removed it after I noticed X.org was working fine).
The best option is to learn how to make RPMs of the binaries you compile But sure, a spec file like this would do it <begin> Name: Dummy Summary: Dummy package to help solve RPM dependencies for packages installed from source Version: 1.0 Release: 1 License: GPL Group: none Provides: XFree86-libs %description This package will "provide" the things installed from source, so the RPM database will be in some sense "in order", although it still won't have the files included, so RPM won't be able to warn you about overwriting %prep %build %install %files <end> Just add whatever dependencies you want to tell RPM about as new "Provides:" lines.
I also will be manually installing QT, and I would like to do something similar in this situation where YaST will find my manually installed version.
Is there an open source version of YaST QT?
Is there a non-open source of it?
(KDE broke, so I removed everything.) I do not see a 'yast2-qt' source package in search.
http://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/8.2/suse/src/yast2- qt-2.7.18-41.src.rpm perhaps?
In short, what I want to know is, is there anyway for YaST to be able to detect programs that other programs depend on that I have installed from source?
Only by creating RPMs, either real or dummy ones, that "provide" what you want yast (really rpm) to know about
If this is not possible, I would like to know more about "System Update" and the availability of X.org from SuSE. I notice the provide .rpms for users of version 9.1, but I am using 8.2. Will "system update" update my system to SuSE version 9.2?
No, but it might get you to 9.1 :) It's possible, but there are enough potential gotchas going from 8.2 that I wouldn't recommend it unless you really know what you're doing
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