Andrewski Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 I've been trying to get gdesklets to install, but I've been having problems every way I turn. I tried: 1. Installing the latest package available from their site. 2. Installing the .src.rpm from rpmfind.net. 3. Installing the Mandrake RPMs from urpmi. I can elaborate on the problems with each of those, but I'd appreciate if someone could tell me the preferred method, so I'm not wasting my time doing something stupid. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 well the preferred way is not really something you should decide. but using rpm's is usually the desired way for most people as compiling can be a bit if a pain at times, especially if you are not very experienced at it. anyway you really should give us a better idea of : error messages what makes you think it is not installed whether or not you have all the required depends installed for using gdesklets. and anything else that you think may help. being verbose is not a bad thing imho, because right now i have no idea how to solve your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 What happened with urpmi? I urpmi'ed them on a friends fresh 9.2 without a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted December 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 Sarah, Like I said, I was hesitating to be verbose since I didn't know which method of installing I should describe. So... we'll go with installing from source; that's definitely the underdeveloped skill on my end. [verbosity] ;) 1. I visit their site and download the latest package, 0.24.1. 2. I read the requirements on the download page: Python 2.x or higher (2.3 recommended), libgtop2, GConf, gnome-python 1.99.17 or higher (2.0.0 recommended), GConf support for gnome-python. Ok. 3. I check the rpms on my computer: root:andrew$ rpm -qa | grep python python-base-2.2.2-6mdk libpython2.3-2.3-3mdk libpython2.2-2.2.2-6mdk python-2.2.2-6mdk root:andrew$ rpm -qa | grep libgtop2 libgtop2-2.0.5-1mdk libgtop2.0_0-2.0.5-1mdk root:andrew$ rpm -qa | grep gconf pkgconfig-0.15.0-3mdk libgstgconf0.6-0.6.3-3mdk gconf-editor-2.4.0-1mdk root:andrew$ rpm -qa | grep gnome-python root:andrew$ Ok, so I'm missing gnome-python, assumedly some gconf rpms and python 2.3. Easy enough, right? root:andrew$ urpmi gnome-python Some package requested cannot be installed: gnome-python-2.0.0-2mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied python-base[>= 2.3]) root:andrew$ urpmi python Everything already installed root:andrew$ urpmi python-base Everything already installed root:andrew$ urpmi python-2.3 no package named python-2.3 Python from rpmfind.net...!!! root:andrew$ rpm -ivh python-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libpython2.3 = 2.3-4mdk is needed by python-2.3-4mdk python-base = 2.3-4mdk is needed by python-2.3-4mdk python-base >= 2.3 is needed by python-2.3-4mdk Python-base and libpython2.3.... root:andrew$ rpm -ivh python-base-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libpython2.3 = 2.3-4mdk is needed by python-ba root:andrew$ rpm -ivh libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: python = 2.3-4mdk is needed by libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdk libpython2.3 = 2.3-4mdk is needed by libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdk python-base >= 2.3 is needed by libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdkse-2.3-4mdk Ah! Dep hell!!! [/verbosity] Iphitus, I tried "urpmi gdesklets" quite first! I got the following error: root:andrew$ urpmi gdesklets Some package requested cannot be installed: gdesklets-0.22-1mdk.i586 (due to missing gnome-python-gconf-2.0.0-2mdk.i586) gnome-python-gconf-2.0.0-2mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied python-base[>= 2.3]) That's why I proceeded as I described above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 (edited) This is everything python I have installed: [root@localhost omar]# rpm -qa | grep python python-numeric-22.0-4mdk python-geoip-0.2.0-1mdk gnome-python-gconf-2.0.0-2mdk python-2.3-3mdk python-psyco-1.1.1-1mdk python-numeric-devel-22.0-4mdk libpython2.3-devel-2.3-3mdk xchat-python-2.0.4-6mdk python-base-2.3-3mdk gnome-python-2.0.0-2mdk gnome-python-bonobo-2.0.0-2mdk libpython2.3-2.3-3mdk gnome-python-canvas-2.0.0-2mdk Try going to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and set up all the sources for urpmi again, doing a urpmi.removemedia -a before running the commands suggested by the EasyURPMI website. Then try urpmi python-base etc. Edited December 17, 2003 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 well according to your listed installed packages you do have gnome-python. did you try just running the configure script for the source to see what happens? another common issue after installing some packages which include lib files is that often their presence is not fully detected until you log out then in. (it is not common but will occurs especially if their are functionality scripts involved with them) your other option is uninstalling all of the depends then reinstalling them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 Python from rpmfind.net...!!! root:andrew$ rpm -ivh python-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm<!--QuoteEBegin-->error: Failed dependencies:<!--QuoteEBegin--> libpython2.3 = 2.3-4mdk is needed by python-2.3-4mdk<!--QuoteEBegin--> python-base = 2.3-4mdk is needed by python-2.3-4mdk<!--QuoteEBegin--> python-base >= 2.3 is needed by python-2.3-4mdk Python-base and libpython2.3.... root:andrew$ rpm -ivh python-base-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm<!--QuoteEBegin-->error: Failed dependencies:<!--QuoteEBegin--> libpython2.3 = 2.3-4mdk is needed by python-ba<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->root:andrew$ rpm -ivh libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm<!--QuoteEBegin-->error: Failed dependencies:<!--QuoteEBegin--> python = 2.3-4mdk is needed by libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdk<!--QuoteEBegin--> libpython2.3 = 2.3-4mdk is needed by libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdk<!--QuoteEBegin--> python-base >= 2.3 is needed by libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdkse-2.3-4mdk Ah! Dep hell!!! [/verbosity] Instead of that, go to the directory where those 3 rpm's are stored and issue 1 command: rpm -Uvh libpython2.3-devel-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm python-base-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm python-2.3-4mdk.i586.rpm This should install all 3 of them all at once. Use the -U switch for Upgrade, instead of the -i switch (install) and it should work with no errors. Give that a try and see what you find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted December 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 (edited) Steve, My, you're helping me left and right! Yes, I guess my urpmi sources were out-of-date. Is there any way I could have updated the sources without removing them first? Sarah, Yes, I tried running the script. My error was "missing python 2.3.3". :) And uninstalling the depends would have been even worse; I use quite a few programs that utilize python. But no matter! They seem to have installed! Off to play.... Edited December 17, 2003 by Andrewski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 It's possible that urpmi.update -a might've worked, but from what I could tell from the errors, you probably didn't have the urpmi sources in there correctly to begin with, so it was just easier to start over. If you ever have a problem with installing something new and it has been a couple days since you last used urpmi, I suggest that you do urpmi.update -a before you try to install the new package, just in case they've updated packages recently. Now that you have urpmi sources correctly identified, you can keep your system up-to-date by running urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto --auto-select about once every week or two and that will update, if needed, any of the packages that you currently have installed. Works just like MandrakeUpdate only better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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