On Saturday 29 June 2002 19.05, Bryce Hardy wrote:
I'm trying to install Gnome 2 under SuSE 8.0 and I downloaded the appropriate rpms from the SuSE ftp site. It comes up with the following dependency:
/sbin/install-info is needed by libidl-0.8.0-15
Anyone know what this is, I tried creating an empty text file by that name but that didn't do it. Thanks for any ideas.
Well, no. rpm dependencies are resolved by the rpm database, not by what's actually installed on the file system. You could have installed something from a .tar.gz for instance and still get dependency problems because the program you installed was never entered into the rpm database. On the other hand, you can manually delete files and rpm won't know the difference. As to your question: this is without doubt the most frequently asked question of all (which package contains the file XXXXX). I'm beginning to believe that SuSE should include an A1 poster in the distribution that reads something like ALL FILES ARE CATALOGUED IN THE FILE ARCHIVES.gz IN THE ROOT OF CD1 OR THE DVD. zgrep sbin/install-info /media/cdrom/ARCHIVES.gz gives the following ./CD1/suse/a2/texinfo-4.0-389.i386.rpm: -rwxr-xr-x root root 18268 Mar 23 19:55 /sbin/install-info ./CD1/suse/a2/texinfo-4.0-389.i386.rpm: lrwxrwxrwx root root 23 Mar 23 19:55 /usr/bin/install-info -> ../../sbin/install-info So, install the package texinfo and that particular dependency should be resolved. regards Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'