[Mailman-Users] Problems Problems Problems

[Cody Harris]

Belive it or not, apt won't install...
[root at Vectec root]# rpm -i apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr0.rh73.2.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
         librpm-4.0.4.so   is needed by apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr0.rh73.2
         librpmdb-4.0.4.so   is needed by apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr0.rh73.2
         librpmio-4.0.4.so   is needed by apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr0.rh73.2
[root at Vectec root]#

I should try the version down....

At 04:22 PM 4/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Cody,
>
>1.  email.  See if you can send email to your account on your machine from 
>another computer.
>
>2.  apt.  The apt RPMs are basically tailored to the version of rpm you 
>have (rpm -q rpm).  So you could get the right version without running Red 
>Hat.  I don't know as much about Mandrake, and whether it has apt or 
>something similar running on it.
>
>But as someone else already pointed out, when you don't have the 
>dependencies, trying to get each package individually is hell.  Because 
>some of them have dependencies, etc, etc.
>
>Cody Harris wrote:
>
>>I have webmin, and i have mandrake 8.1
>>At 04:14 PM 4/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>Cody,
>>>
>>>I started as a newbie on a machine I was building myself.  It took 
>>>awhile to get email working.  I eventually got rid of Sendmail and put 
>>>in Postfix (both should be on the Red Hat CDs).  A lot easier to manage.
>>>
>>>Another neat package to look at is "webmin".  It lets you administer a 
>>>lot of the machine via the web, hiding complexity of editing files by hand.
>>>
>>>What version of Red Hat are you using?
>>>
>>>Cody Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ummmm...do i don't....i'm a newbie basicly.
>>>>At 04:10 PM 4/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Cody,
>>>>>
>>>>>Here is what I suggest, since you have so many dependencies involved.
>>>>>
>>>>>Go to http://apt.freshrpms.net/ and download the version of apt for 
>>>>>the Linux version you have, presumable some form of RedHat.  Then use 
>>>>>it to get and install python - it will also get and install any 
>>>>>packages it depends on.  Make sure you also get python-devel.
>>>>>
>>>>>Then goto http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 
>>>>>and get mailman 2.1.1.  uncompress, untar, and read INSTALL.
>>>>>
>>>>>Do you already have email working on this machine?
>>>>>
>>>>>Cody Harris wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Because nobody offered to install it for me, i went to do it myself. 
>>>>>>On python install:
>>>>>>[root at Vectec root]# rpm -i python-2.2.2-7.i386.rpm
>>>>>>error: failed dependencies:
>>>>>>         rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1 is needed by 
>>>>>> python-2.2.2-7
>>>>>>         libcrypto.so.2   is needed by python-2.2.2-7
>>>>>>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by python-2.2.2-7
>>>>>>         libdb-4.0.so   is needed by python-2.2.2-7
>>>>>>         libreadline.so.4   is needed by python-2.2.2-7
>>>>>>         libssl.so.2   is needed by python-2.2.2-7
>>>>>>Ok, now what?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>
>>>>>John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
>>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
>>>email:      jdecarlo at mitre.org
>>>voice:      703-883-7116
>>>fax:        703-883-3383
>>>DISA cube:  703-882-0593
>>
>
>--
>
>John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
>email:      jdecarlo at mitre.org
>voice:      703-883-7116
>fax:        703-883-3383
>DISA cube:  703-882-0593
>