From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: SuSE 10.0 and it's RPM 4.1.1?? Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:10:39 -0400 Message-ID: <20060405151039.GA1065@lnx2.kvinet.com> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Greetings: A Slackware junkie all my Linux life, I'm just now "playing" with other distributions that use RPM.. At first I thought, piece of cake, invoking rpm -i package.rpm; slick.. That didn't last, when I tried installing a package that didn't play ball, and opened Pandora's box of queries.. Man rpm shed some light, what I understood, so I pulled a book I had covering Red Hat 6.2 - rather old, but just maybe?? rpm -i package.rpm - returns "warning: package.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID [octet of characters] error: Failed dependencies: (with a list of no less than 15 of them reporting the exact library needed...) First off, I didn't know what V3 DSA meant, but the missing dependencies are fairly normal these days.. I had some work ahead of me but the RedHat book said to use rpm -q --redhatprovides and it would list the base package needed.. This is not RedHat, of course, but there is a --provides flag that didn't return anything except that the package was missing.. I tried that entering a library that's either in /lib or /usr/lib, and it returned "Package not installed." I'm presuming this has been changed for, at least, libraries.. Or--is it the NOKEY thingy?? Stumped!! BTW the subject package was fetched from rpm.pbone.net, whereas the rpm's installed previous to that were ones in the SuSE distribution package.. That has to have a lot to do with it, IMHO... Is there a tutorial that explains this better than the man?? TIA. -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs