Problems upgrading autoconf

[Steve Scrimpshire]

I was trying to install from source received from CVS kdelibs to get kdevelop to stop complaining about not being able to find the KDELibs-docs, but I ran into this problem. I need autoconf >= 2.52

 

and Mandrake only supplies ~ 2.13

 

I downloaded *.src.rpm and *.rpm for autoconf but trying to install, I get these errors:

 

installing autoconf-2.53-7.noarch.rpm



Installation failed:

       perl(Carp) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(Cwd) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(Data::Dumper) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(DynaLoader) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(Exporter) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(File::Basename) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(File::Compare) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(File::Copy) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(File::Find) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(File::Spec) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(File::stat) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(Getopt::Long) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(IO::File) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(POSIX) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(strict) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(Text::ParseWords) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

       perl(vars) is needed by autoconf-2.53-7

 

So, I did:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

and did

 

install Carp

install Cwd

etc....

 

and tried to install autoconf again and got the same errors. What gives?

[liquidzoo]

Try adding a cooker source to urpmi then try urpmi autoconf2.5 and see what happens. It should download and install (I looked at our cooker database, and autoconf2.5-2 is there) Or, you can just try urpmi autoconf and see what files it gives you. On my system, at least, if there is more than 1 package with the name that I gave in urpmi, it will list them out for me.

[bvc]

Steve, I thought you were on ML9.1 now...no? 9.1 has 2.5

localhost:/# urpmf autoconf

autoconf2.5:/etc/emacs/site-start.d/autoconf2.5.el

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/autoconf-2.5x

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/autoheader-2.5x

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/autom4te

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/autoreconf-2.5x

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/autoscan-2.5x

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/autoupdate-2.5x

autoconf2.5:/usr/bin/ifnames-2.5x

autoconf2.5:/usr/share/autoconf

autoconf2.5:/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te

autoconf2.5:/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm

autoconf2.5:/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Struct.pm

autoconf2.5:/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/XFile.pm

autoconf2.5:/usr/share/autoconf/INSTALL

autoconf2.5:/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf

In fact, I think there are 2 versions available in 9.1.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

I had done

 

urpmi autoconf

 

and not urpmi autoconf2.5

 

and then when I was searching the web, I searched for autoconf-2.5 and not autoconf2.5. Also, both autoconf-2.13-16mdk and autoconf2.5-2.57-3mdk are included with 9.1, but the version of kdevelop that comes with 9.1 -> kdevelop-2.1.5-3mdk.i586.rpm gives me this error when I try to install autoconf2.5, which is needed for me to compile a package needed by kdevelop (sound circular to you?):

 

# rpm -ivh kdevelop-2.1.5-3mdk.i586.rpm 

error: failed dependencies:

       autoconf   is needed by kdevelop-2.1.5-3mdk

       autoconf2.5 conflicts with kdevelop-2.1.5-3mdk

 

 

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[bvc]

do you use kdevelop? I just always removed it and deps in order to have the right/newer autoconf. You can always put it back after you compile the other app.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

do you use kdevelop? I just always removed it and deps in order to have the right/newer autoconf. You can always put it back after you compile the other app.

 

Uh, thanks for the wakeup call, there, bvc. It's not really that important, I guess. I guess I could look for another IDE.