Unable to install Alpine

[Arturo Magidin]

Hi all,

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?

Thanks in advance.

Arturo Magidin

[J.O. Aho]

Arturo Magidin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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

--

//Aho

[Beartooth]

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?

[Arturo Magidin]

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.

Arturo Magidin

[Beartooth]

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.