Topic: damn deps

[WXP]

Hello,

I'm trying to get the "screen" command to work under ES v5
So I download it and tried to install it :

[root@sgtserver cs]# rpm -Uvh screen-3.9.9-4.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libtinfo.so.5   is needed by screen-3.9.9-4
[root@sgtserver cs]# rpm -Uvh ncurses-5.2-3.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libform.so.5 is needed by taper-6.9b-3
[root@sgtserver cs]# rpm -Uvh ncurses-ext-5.2-3.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        libtinfo.so.5   is needed by ncurses-ext-5.2-3
[root@sgtserver cs]# rpm -Uvh *.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
package ncurses-5.2-8 (which is newer than ncurses-5.2-3) is already installed

Apparently I need ncurses-ext5.2.8 but I cant find it !!!

Someone can help ?

Thanx

[Randy Brown]

Hi,

  I don't know if this will help at all but have you tried --force?

AKA >> rpm -Uvh --force screen-3.9.9-4.i386.rpm <<

[WXP]

Yup and then it gives me an error !

[Quade]

Well, this answer comes almost a year after the question was asked, but here's a working answer:

Go and download the RPM for RedHat 7.1 at ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS (anonymous login) named screen-3.9.8-3.i386.rpm

once you get it, the command line is rpm -Uvh screen-3.9.8-3.i386.rpm, just like you had it, but now that the RPM has all the neccessary dependencies, it'll install Screen.


NOTE:
I post this not because I think it'll help WXP, but because I spent almost the whole day looking for the answer to this question. This forum was the first place I looked, and I figure that others might do the same. Hopefully, this will help others in the future.

-Quade