Linux X86 2.6, Oracle 9.2.0.4 and RPM Dependency Hell

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:41:23 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380608111741p373c1cc1n34840508f466cb62@mail.gmail.com>

The subject line says it all.

To install 9204 on RHEL4, you must install patch 4198954.

This consists of 2 RPM files:
  compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm
  compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm

Installing compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm is no problem.

Installing compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm seems to be nearly impossible.

The dependency chain for this package is very long.

Though most of the required packages are installed, the versions may be slightly different.

Here's an example.

[root@ 4198954]# rpm -ivh compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm error: Failed
dependencies:

     xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel is needed by compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386

    Suggested resolutions:

        xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm
[root@ 4198954]#

Now try installing the dependent lib:

[root@ RPMS]# rpm -ivh

xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies:

        xorg-x11-deprecated-libs = 6.8.2-1.EL.13.25 is needed by
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386
        xorg-x11-devel = 6.8.2-1.EL.13.25 is needed by
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386
    Suggested resolutions:
        xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm
        xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm

[root@ RPMS]# rpm -ivh xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies:

        fontconfig-devel >= 2.1 is needed by

xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386
        xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.2-1.EL.13.25 is needed by
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386
    Suggested resolutions:
        fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-7.i386.rpm
        xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm

[root@ RPMS]# rpm -ivh fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-7.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:

        freetype-devel >= 2.1.4 is needed by fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-7.i386     Suggested resolutions:

        freetype-devel-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm

[root@ RPMS]# rpm -ivh freetype-devel-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:

        freetype = 2.1.9-1 is needed by freetype-devel-2.1.9-1.i386     Suggested resolutions:

        freetype-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm

[root@ RPMS]# rpm -ivh freetype-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm

Preparing...                ###########################################


[100%]

        package freetype-2.1.9-4.el4 (which is newer than freetype-2.1.9-1)
is already installed
        file /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.7 from install of

freetype-2.1.9-1conflicts with file from package freetype-2.1.9-4.el4

        file /usr/lib/libttf.so.2.3.0 from install of freetype-2.1.9-1conflicts with file from package freetype-2.1.9-4.el4

As you can see, there's no resolving this manually.

Without these 2 small files...

jkstill_at_glamdring:~/zips> rpm -qpl -v compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 914 Feb 23 2005 /usr/bin/g++.tmp_1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 914 Feb 23 2005 /usr/bin/gcc.tmp_1

... there's no way that the 9i link will succeed.

Using the GUI for RPM doesn't seem to work either.

  system-config-packages --tree=<path to install directory>

The program will correctly read what is installed, but when an attempt to update is made it cannot seem to find the RPMs.

Any ideas on how to solve this dependency mess?

-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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Received on Fri Aug 11 2006 - 19:41:23 CDT