MJRay wrote:
Jenny:
I can only find a deb version of the later rpm in testing so download
the
deb package
If it's in testing, a few of us can probably make you a copy for stable if you tell us what it is. Installing "the odd package" from testing without doing a dist-upgrade is probably not a good idea.
Oh dear. Too late. I hope I haven't screwed masses of stuff up now. What i'm after is an odbc driver, I found http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/conectiva/7.0/cd2/conectiva/RPMS/php4-odbc-4.0.... I thought it would be quite simple to install alien so I can use the rpm. Ha! I installed alien and eagerly went to install the rpm-packaged driver from the link above, but alien told me it couldn't deal with rpm using major number less than 3 (or something like that). What I then was trying to install was rpm 4.0.2-18 from the testing; this is what was requiring the unmet dependencies. Would a working copy not requiring bunches of weird stuff be a possibility?
Chris Glover wrote:
How about downloading the source for alien and building it yourself???
I tried this just in case, but it still requires you to install rpm - so same problem.
Richard K wrote:
Update libdb2 as well; libdb3 only conflicts with earlier versions of it. Under "testing":
.....I tried this too, but libdb3 still wouldn't install.
and of course, Ricardo wrote:
"fsck this"
well, quite!
Many thanks to all. Worst linux day I've had for a long time. :-( Jen
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Chris Glover wrote:
How about downloading the source for alien and building it yourself???
I tried this just in case, but it still requires you to install rpm - so same problem.
RPM source is available from here ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.3.tar.gz
I have found in the past that when all else fails (ie installing the RPM), have a go at building it yourself. Then give up and try another tactic :-)
Hope that helps
Chris
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Jenny:
Oh dear. Too late. I hope I haven't screwed masses of stuff up now.
Hopefully not, as testing is fairly good right now, as it's preparing for release. Try to RTFM next time ;-)
What i'm after is an odbc driver
I have unixodbc for stable with Postgres 6 somewhere around, I think, or I can try to build one for PG7.1, or maybe even iodbc, if it helps. How that fits in which PHP is probably best dealt with by someone who knows more PHP sysadmin things. If any of them are use, just let me know.
What I then was trying to install was rpm 4.0.2-18 from the testing; this is what was requiring the unmet dependencies. Would a working copy not requiring bunches of weird stuff be a possibility?
No, you'll probably need to upgrade parts of your system to testing in some way. You could either go the whole hog and just flip "stable" to "testing" in there, or you could add a deb-src line for "stable", do "apt-get -b source packagename" and see if it builds for you.
Richard K wrote:
Update libdb2 as well; libdb3 only conflicts with earlier versions of it. Under "testing":
.....I tried this too, but libdb3 still wouldn't install.
Now that is strange...
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