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Installing new versions of applications using rpm

Asked by: mark_dh

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask the question. I'm using SUSE 10.0 I need to upgrade my version of php (currently using php 4.4 and need to move to php 5). The problem that I'm experiencing is as follows every time I attempt to rpm -Uvh php5-5.1.2-3.i586.rpm I get

error: Failed dependencies:
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by php5-5.1.2-3
        libmm.so.14 is needed by php5-5.1.2-3

Which I didn't think was such a big deal, so I found an rpm version of glibc 2.4 and ran rpm -Uvh glibc-2.4-31.0.20060508.i586.rpm. This resulted in the following:

error: Failed dependencies:
        glibc = 2.3.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-locale-2.3.5-39

Again fair enough so I fugred well I'll install glibc-locale-2.4x so I ran the following command:

rpm -Uvh glibc-locale-2.4-22.0.i686.rpm

 error: Failed dependencies:
        glibc = 2.4 is needed by glibc-locale-2.4-22.0

Obviously this brings me full circle...how in the world does one install a package that has dependencies that rely on each other. Any ideas?

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by: Cyclops3590Posted on 2006-05-12 at 09:33:12ID: 16669006

2 things
1) why can't you use the yast update program to upgrade your software
2) if you can't use the yast, the do this
rpm -Uvh php5-5.1.2-3.i586.rpm glibc-2.4-31.0.20060508.i586.rpm glibc-locale-2.4-22.0.i686.rpm
just list them all at once instead of doing them seperately and it will pass the dependcy test

 

by: Cyclops3590Posted on 2006-05-12 at 09:33:47ID: 16669018

but I would highly recommend upgrading software thru the OSs package manager though. if at all possible

 

by: mark_dhPosted on 2006-05-12 at 09:40:46ID: 16669067

I haven't been able to get Yast working with external data sources.

 

by: Cyclops3590Posted on 2006-05-12 at 09:50:53ID: 16669164

gotcha, then you should be able to just list all of the rpms at once and get it to work

 

by: Cyclops3590Posted on 2006-05-12 at 13:24:44ID: 16670963

just out of curiousity, why did my answer receive a B rating.  did my suggestion not work?  just curious

 

by: mark_dhPosted on 2006-05-12 at 13:48:09ID: 16671133

It's nothing personal however it didn't work completely, while i tried what you suggested i was simply prompted by another dependency that needed to be installed. So I appended that on to the command, then it was another and another and another...i was hoping for a simipliar (sp?) solution...

 

by: Cyclops3590Posted on 2006-05-12 at 16:53:04ID: 16671915

thanks for for clarifying...it is very much appreciated

I understand the disgust, but unfortunately unless yast does it for you, you have to do the rpm dance for a while

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