Re: [IBMiOSS] RPM dependencies (was Update Ghostscript)

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I wrote a script to install the entire bundle, but it still failed with
unresolved dependencies.

Which dependencies are still unresolved?

Also, the following link is for the pkg_setup.sh script and it has code to
massage a couple things (i.e. libiconv): http://bit.ly/2cUwg3d  I convey
this to you because pkg_setup.sh is the "Easy button" way to install stuff.
You've ventured into the wilderness (which rocks, btw) so it's good to know
of the "gotchas".

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After my last post, I went back to the install instructions.  I opened the
> script, and what did I see?  Plain old "wget" and "rpm" commands!  Armed
> with this new knowledge, I went to perzl and found the latest Ghostscript.
> It failed with some dependency errors.  I went back to perzl and found app
> bundles, which I assumed to be groups to be installed together to resolve
> all dependencies.  Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.  I wrote a script
> to install the entire bundle, but it still failed with unresolved
> dependencies.  When I get time, I'm going to head back to perzl and see if
> I can find a way to fix this.
>
>
> I figured out the *SECOFR thing.  The many page security audit report from
> yesterday clued me in on that one.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 2:05 PM
> To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Update Ghostscript
>
> You put too long a value for the product - at least take off the .rpm,
> then remove extensions until you get what works - I just don't remember
> - I think you want to go all the way to removing .aix5.1
>
> Also, I recommend using wgetv at first, until you don't get an error -
> that gives you a trial report of things without actually downloading
> anything.
>
> Also be sure you have *SECOFR special authority.
>
> Good luck!
> Vern
>
>
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