Re: Spelling still won't work.

[Kurt Guenther <Kurt Guenther serent com>]

And, a miracle occurs....  it worked.  The build failed at one point because it couldn't find:  "-lpspell", so I created a link: 

ln -s libpspell.so.4 libpspell.so.2

and all is well.  I learned a lot.  Thanks.

--Kurt



On 2001.08.31 12:39 Jason A . Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31 2001 15:12:55 Kurt Guenther wrote:
> > 
> > I'm still get the:  Unable to load the "aspell" module.
> > 
> > As recommended, I've tried loading: 
> > 
> >    [root@sage downloads]# rpm -i pspell-0.12.2-3.i386.rpm
> >    [root@sage downloads]# rpm -i aspell-0.33.7-1.i386.rpm
> >    [root@sage downloads]# rpm -i balsa-1.2.pre3-1.i386.rpm
> >    error: failed dependencies:
> > 	   libpspell.so.2   is needed by balsa-1.2.pre3-1
> > 
> > However, I do get this to install just fine: 
> > 
> >    [root@sage downloads]# rpm -i pspell-0.11.2-2.i386.rpm
> >    [root@sage downloads]# rpm -i aspell-0.32.6-2.i386.rpm
> >    [root@sage downloads]# rpm -i balsa-1.2.pre3-1.i386.rpm
> >    [root@sage downloads]# 
> > 
> > It just doesn't work. 
> > 
> > It has to be a newbie question.  This seems like it should be so
> > easy, but I'm missing something.  I tried it on a fresh install
> > of Redhat 7.1, but it failed for the same reason.
> 
> Looks like whoever built the balsa-1.2.pre3 package that you are
> trying to install had pspell-0.11.2-2 installed on their system
> when they built it, so that balsa binary package depends on the
> library that is specific to that version of pspell.  When you
> installed the newer working version of pspell it replaced that
> library with a newer version thus breaking the balsa dependency.
> You will run into these sorts of problems when you selectively
> upgrade libraries like this from one source and then try to install
> binaries built by a third party.  The easiest solution to your
> problem is to download the src rpm and as root do:
> 
> $ rpm --rebuild balsa-1.2.pre3-1.i386.rpm
> $ rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/balsa-1.2.pre3-1.i386.rpm
> 
> This will make a binary package that correctly matches the library
> versions you have on your system.
> 
> ~Jason
> 
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