I just changed from an old Fedora installation that had Pine running on it to a Scientific Linux installation, and was trying to install Alpine. I went to http://www.washington.edu/alpine/acquire/, clicked on the RedHat/Fedora 7 rpm link, and asked that it be opened with the Software Installer. After typing the root password, and selecting Alpine - 1.10-1.i386 to install, the manager said it had an error resolving dependencies, to wit:
Missing Dependency: libtinfo.so.5 is needed by package alpine
Looking at the newsgroup, I found a similar query but with libtinfo.so. 2, and a suggestion to use yum. So I changed to root, and typed
yum install libtinfo.so.5
which generated the following reply:
Loading "kernel-module" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do
I tried to install Alpine again, but it failed with the same error message. Can anyone help me figure out what to do?
> I just changed from an old Fedora installation that had Pine running > on it to a Scientific Linux installation, and was trying to install > Alpine. I went to http://www.washington.edu/alpine/acquire/, clicked > on the RedHat/Fedora 7 rpm link, and asked that it be opened with the > Software Installer. After typing the root password, and selecting > Alpine - 1.10-1.i386 to install, the manager said it had an error > resolving dependencies, to wit:
> Missing Dependency: libtinfo.so.5 is needed by package alpine
This is a library from ncurses-libs, install that one and it should be okey to install alpine.
Next time you have trouble of figuring out which package a file belongs to, you can try to use rpmfind.net
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:57:21 -0700, Arturo Magidin wrote: > I just changed from an old Fedora installation that had Pine running on > it to a Scientific Linux installation, and was trying to install Alpine. > I went to http://www.washington.edu/alpine/acquire/, clicked on the > RedHat/Fedora 7 rpm link, and asked that it be opened with the Software > Installer. [....]
I'm not familiar with Scientific Linux; is there some reason to take for granted that packages tailored to a particular release of Fedora will fit it? Does it in fact use not only yum, but the repositories for F7? If so, do you have livna enabled?
-- Beartooth Implacable, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert What do they know of country, who only country know?
On Jul 20, 12:25 pm, Beartooth <Bearto...@swva.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:57:21 -0700, Arturo Magidin wrote: > > I just changed from an old Fedora installation that had Pine running on > > it to a Scientific Linux installation, and was trying to install Alpine. > > I went tohttp://www.washington.edu/alpine/acquire/, clicked on the > > RedHat/Fedora 7 rpm link, and asked that it be opened with the Software > > Installer. [....]
> I'm not familiar with Scientific Linux; is there some reason to > take for granted that packages tailored to a particular release of Fedora > will fit it? Does it in fact use not only yum, but the repositories for > F7? If so, do you have livna enabled?
All of which seem to be very good questions. In fact, I'm having an enormous amount of trouble with that installation, and decided to scrap it entirely and try Ubuntu instead, which I am told has Alpine in its repository and will install it for me if I ask. Nonetheless, thank you and J.O. Aho for taking the time to help.
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:44:52 -0700, Arturo Magidin wrote: > On Jul 20, 12:25 pm, Beartooth <Bearto...@swva.net> wrote: [...] >> I'm not familiar with Scientific Linux; is there some reason to >> take for granted that packages tailored to a particular release of >> Fedora will fit it? Does it in fact use not only yum, but the >> repositories for F7? If so, do you have livna enabled?
> All of which seem to be very good questions. In fact, I'm having an > enormous amount of trouble with that installation, and decided to scrap > it entirely and try Ubuntu instead, which I am told has Alpine in its > repository and will install it for me if I ask. Nonetheless, thank you > and J.O. Aho for taking the time to help.
Success to your endeavor! And a parting thought : if Ubuntu doesn't suit you, either, and you have no other vast problem with Fedora, try it plain, and just command "yum install alpine" -- all I ever do any more.
-- Beartooth Implacable, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert What do they know of country, who only country know?
