Re: [Pan-users] more troubles with 0.12 (long)

[Phillip Pi]

I am having the same problem on my Red Hat Linux v7.1:

Check http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/installing-pan-012-howto.txt ... I 
am still struggling. Check the mailing list archive too.
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On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Beartooth wrote:

> 
>       When I got to the site Toby Inkster recommended, I thought
> I remembered having discovered I could use 586 stuff; so I
> downloaded it, tried it, and got:
> ===============================================================
> address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.12.0-1.i586.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>       glib2 >= 2.0.4 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       gtk2 >= 2.0.5 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libxml2 >= 2.4.22 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libatk-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libglib-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgmodule-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgobject-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgthread-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpango-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpangox-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpangoxft-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
> address@hidden btth]#
> ====================================================================
>       Well, methought, OK, maybe I only dreamt of discovering I
> could use 586. So I downloaded the 386 and got:
> =================================================================
> address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.12.0-1.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>       glib2 >= 2.0.4 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       gtk2 >= 2.0.5 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libxml2 >= 2.4.22 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libatk-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libglib-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgmodule-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgobject-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgthread-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpango-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpangox-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpangoxft-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
> address@hidden btth]#
> ========================================================================
>       That left 686, and I tried it:
> ======================================================================
> address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.12.0-1.i686.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>       glib2 >= 2.0.4 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       gtk2 >= 2.0.5 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libxml2 >= 2.4.22 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libatk-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libglib-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgmodule-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgobject-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgthread-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpango-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpangox-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>       libpangoxft-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
> address@hidden btth]#
> =================================================================
> 
>       Now, I'm not sophisticated enough to know how to display
> two, let alone all three of those failed dependency lists alongside
> one another, let alone intershuffle them; and I'm too lazy to
> compare back & forth the hard way. But they sure all three *look*
> suspiciously similar.
> 
>       Then methought I might be dreaming *now*; so, just to
> check, I ran the older 386 again; sure enough, I got:
> =================================================================
> address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.11.2-3.i386.rpm
> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
> package pan-0.11.2-3 is already installed
> address@hidden btth]#
> ==================================================================
> 
>       So where are all these failed dependencies coming from all
> of a sudden? I have a subscription to RH Errata alerts, and I've
> been downloading faithfully -- *almost* everything, whether I
> understand it or not -- except developer packages ....
> 
>       My hopes of ever being a developer in my own right are
> significantly less than those of the proverbial celluloid
> hound in hell; I just wanna offer a little naive user feedback
> to youss real guyss! Maybe I have to have them even just to *run*
> Pan? :-(
> 
>       If so -- is there an easy way to handle this? Or had I
> better get back from outta my depth 'fore i drown in alien
> electrons?