Re: Unable to get gnome to install properly...

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Singerman <messt66+@pitt.edu>
>To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
>Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 7:56 PM
>Subject: Unable to get gnome to install properly...
>

>Hiya,
>
>Okay, I know that I have written having this exact same problem before,
>but I didn't get it to ever work last time, it's just that my machine has
>been out of service for the past week, and I am only now getting back to
>this.  I am getting the following error messages:
>
>[root@crush gtemp]# rpm -ivh *.rpm
>failed dependencies:
>        libgdk-1.1.so.1 is needed by balsa-0.4.5-1
>        libgtk-1.1.so.1 is needed by balsa-0.4.5-1
>        libgdk-1.1.so.1 is needed by gmc-4.1.35-3
>        libgtk-1.1.so.1 is needed by gmc-4.1.35-3
>        libgdk-1.1.so.1 is needed by gnome-guile-0.27-1
>        libgtk-1.1.so.1 is needed by gnome-guile-0.27-1
>
>I have every other package listed on the gnome webpage installed.  If
>someone else has had the same problem, and knows a workaround, PLEASE
>e-mail me and let me know.  I *really* like gnome, and I would like to get
>it working on this machine.  Thanks very much in advance.


Note that balsa-0.4.5-1 is a slightly outdated version of balsa.  My
suspicion is that you already have this installed from a previous gnome
installation.  Try doing a "rpm -qa | grep 'balsa'" to find out.

Basically the error tells you that you are installing a newer version of
libgtk and libgdk but that an older application on the system still needs
the older libraries to be installed.  You probably need to
"rpm -ivh --force".  If that still fails, it may be that the Gnome .3
distribution that you are installing have is including some old rpms (balsa,
gmc, and gnome-guile) and you should find a more recent copy of these three
packages.

And, yes, this process should be simpler.

---------------
Jesse D. Sightler
http://www3.pair.com/jsight/