fedorac2

[danip]

well here i am again on my on going quest to find a linux distro i like. fedora was recomended to me so i decided to give it a try. the first program i always want to get installed is direct connect. theres a couple hubs i use there where i get good tech support and theres some friends there but heres what i get when i try to install dctc

error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by dctc-0.85.9-2plf
libdb-4.1.so is needed by dctc-0.85.9-2plf
libssl.so.0.9.7 is needed by dctc-0.85.9-2plf

I went googleing for these pacakges and im not having much luck. I found some mandrake packages of a couple of those didnt think they would work. anyone know where i can look for these?

[do_guh_new]

have you tried apt-get for rpm? It comes with fedora core 2, if that doesnt work the best place on the net for finding rpms would be http://rpmfind.net

[mdwatts]

What is 'fedorac2' in your subject?

Since you are having problems installing dctc, wouldn't something like

Installing dctc - failed dependencies

be a bit better?

[danip]

i type apt-get says command not found. i thought apt-get was a debian thing anyways?

Yeah perhaps dctc help would have been a better topic forgive my uber n00bness

[habibbijan]

You can find apt for Fedora at http://apt.freshrpms.net/.

Download the rpm, and install it (as root)
# rpm -Uvh apt-<package name>.rpm

You now have apt.

[danip]

now is there a way that i can browse what packages are on apt-get?

[rbrimhall]

apt-get install synaptic

[danip]

[root@localhost dctc]# apt-get install synaptic
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package synaptic



ok im searching through rpmfind.net and im looking at the package for dctc and it has a list of all the packages it requires so i think great that makes it easy. i d/l all of them to make sure i have everything hoping that dctc will install this time. now i get errors and some of the packages about them requiring 2 and 3 and 4 other packages. there has to be a better way to do this then having to search for all these packages. im guessing if i try and d/l the packages of these other packages i need to install dctc ill learn i need even more packages. this is just getting to confusing.

[rbrimhall]

apt-get update
apt-get install synaptic

[habibbijan]

Once you have synaptic installed, type:

# synaptic

Then browse away. Synaptic will automatically resolve dependencies for you.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by danip

Yeah perhaps dctc help would have been a better topic forgive my uber n00bness

'dctc help'? Almost as bad. :)

'Installing dctc - failed dependencies' would be more appropriate and would certainly help draw attention to your thread since the members would know exactly what problem you are having before even opening the thread.