Guest mikejd Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 I have been running Mandriva 2008.1 for some time. I had Inkscape 0.46 installed but it suddenly stopped loading. So I uninstalled it and tried reinstalling. I thought I would upgrade to 0.47 but found I could not download the file through the Mandriva configuration interface due to missing libpoppler.so.5. I tried to reinstall 0.46 and this worked but it still fails to load, now apparently due to a missing file libperl.so. I have been unable to find either of these dependancies so how can I get a working installation? Mike Davies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 To find a rpm package that contains file XXX $ rpm -q --whatprovides XXX rpm -q --whatprovides libperl.so gives the following on my mandriva 2008.1 install: perl-base-5.10.0-13.1mdv2008.1 so make sure you have this file installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 That will work if perl-base is installed, however, if it's not installed and you're trying to find a package that you need, you can do this: urpmf --provides libperl.so then you can see what package is listed and then install it, thus: urpmi perl-base for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 For 2008.1, the default version of inkscape is 0.45. If you want 0.46, you'll have to enable the backports repository. I think this is more likely to result in success than trying to install 2009.0 or 2009.1 packages, which it sounds like you might have been trying to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Inkscape has a LOT of GNOME dependencies, and so installing a non-backport RPM is highly likely to fail. A safer solution is (as suggested) to install the latest available from backports, or compiling it yourself leaving out all unnecessary GNOME deps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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