Re: [Plplot-general] install problems

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Those Mandrake 8.0 rpm's were made by a helpful user, and I don't have
access to Mandrake myself.  Nevertheless, I believe I know a workaround for
you from my general rpm experience.

The guy that built the Mandrake 8.0 rpm must have had libgd.so.1.8 on his
system so I don't quite understand how you have ended up with the later
version libgd.so.1.8.4 for your Mandrake 8.0.  Perhaps you have an updated
version of the gd package and he was using the original Mandrake 8.0
version?

You could attempt to fix this by installing his exact Mandrake package of
gd. Was this what you were trying?  If so, the proper way to do this is to
use rpm -F or -U (freshen or update) rather than rpm -i (install).  See the
rpm man page.  You may also have to use some additional parameter to allow
updating or freshening an existing newer package with an older package.
Again, see the rpm man page.

If you just want to do something simpler, you could probably just force the
installation of plplot despite the slightly different libgd library version.
(look up "man rpm" to see how to force an install.) If you are lucky,
libgd.so.1.8.4 will just be a bug-fixed and feature enhanced version of
libgd.so.1.8 without any changes to the API that plplot uses.  BTW, only the
png and jpeg drivers use the libgd API so any version mismatch problems for
that library will only show up if you use those particular drivers.

BTW, my comments about forcing the PLplot rpm to install are all
theoretical. Lots of people apparently do such forcing (to get around such
problems as you have encountered), but I haven't done it myself.

A final possibility is to build PLplot from either the source rpm or
tarball. (In both cases your compiler build will automatically match to the
exact library versions you have on your system.) Both possibilities are more
tedious than binary rpm installs, but you also learn more, and the results
never have library version mismatch troubles.

Alan

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Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, M. Frankford wrote:

> I am trying to install plplot 5.0.3-4
> on Linux Mandrake 8.0 and get the following
> 
> [root@]# rpm -i plplot-5.0.3-4.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libgd.so.1.8   is needed by plplot-5.0.3-4
> 
> 
> I then tried
> [root@]# rpm -i gd-1.8.1-4mdk.i586.rpm
> file /usr/lib/libgd.so.1 from install of gd-1.8.1-4mdk conflicts with file
> from package libgd1-1.8.4-3mdk
> 
> I checked
> [root@]# ls /usr/lib/libgd.*
> /usr/lib/libgd.so.1@  /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8.4*
> 
> How do I resolve this(these) dependency problem(s)?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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