Lâmôlabs » rpm http://www.lamolabs.org/blog Lame Oh Labs .... Linux & Tech! Is there anything else? Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:02:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 [one-liner]: Using Yum to Download RPMs under Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/3520/one-liner-using-yum-to-download-rpms-under-fedora-centos-rhel/ http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/3520/one-liner-using-yum-to-download-rpms-under-fedora-centos-rhel/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:37:29 +0000 slmingol http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/?p=3520 From time to time I’ve run into an RPM that won’t install via yum. These usually pop up because I’ve mixed packages in from a 3rd party repository, and the 3rd party package has some overlapping files with an already installed RPM.

Problem

Here’s an example that happened to me recently on a Fedora 10 system where [...]]]> Background

From time to time I’ve run into an RPM that won’t install via yum. These usually pop up because I’ve mixed packages in from a 3rd party repository, and the 3rd party package has some overlapping files with an already installed RPM.

Problem

Here’s an example that happened to me recently on a Fedora 10 system where I was trying to install some pulseaudio related packages.

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% yum install xmms-pulse xine-lib-pulseaudio
Package xmms-pulse-0.9.4-6.fc10.i386 already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xine-lib-pulseaudio.i386 0:1.1.16.3-2.fc10 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.16.3-2.fc10 for package: xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.i386
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.i386 from updates has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.16.3-2.fc10 is needed by package xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.i386 (updates)
Error: Missing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.16.3-2.fc10 is needed by package xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.i386 (updates)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Solution

If you’re confident that this is a “false positive” type of error you can force your way around it like so. First download the RPM using the never mentioned command yumdownloader.

NOTE: yumdownloader is part of the yum-utils package.

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% yumdownloader xine-lib-pulseaudio

Next try to install/upgrade the package.

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% rpm -Uvh --nodeps xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
	file /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.26/xineplug_ao_out_pulseaudio.so from install of xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.i386 conflicts with file from package xine-lib-1.1.16.3-18.fc10.i386

This is what I would consider a bogus error. For whatever reason, both RPMs share the same file, so let’s just install it already by doing a forced installation of the RPM.

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 % rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:xine-lib-pulseaudio    ########################################### [100%]

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]]> http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/3520/one-liner-using-yum-to-download-rpms-under-fedora-centos-rhel/feed/ 0 Fixing Ruby Support in Vim on Fedora 10, 11, and CentOS 5 & Installing the Vim Textile plugin http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2662/fixing-ruby-support-in-vim-on-fedora-10-11-and-centos-5-installing-the-vim-textile-plugin/ http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2662/fixing-ruby-support-in-vim-on-fedora-10-11-and-centos-5-installing-the-vim-textile-plugin/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:00:09 +0000 slmingol http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/?p=2662 A while back I was trying to get the vim textile plugin installed and ran into a problem. Apparently the vim that’s included with Fedora 10, 11, and CentOS 5 doesn’t include ruby support. This bug report explains what’s wrong with vim and how it’s missing ruby support. The problem is visible with this command:

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A while back I was trying to get the vim textile plugin installed and ran into a problem. Apparently the vim that’s included with Fedora 10, 11, and CentOS 5 doesn’t include ruby support. This bug report explains what’s wrong with vim and how it’s missing ruby support. The problem is visible with this command:

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% vim --version | grep ruby
+printer +profile +python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft -ruby +scrollbind 
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The –ruby tells us that ruby support isn’t enabled. The only solution I’ve seen thus far is to rebuild vim. Not really a huge deal but it’s work non the less 8-).

Rebuilding vim with ruby support

Here’s how I fixed it.

download vim Source RPM (SRPM)

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% wget http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/updates/10/SRPMS/vim-7.2.148-1.fc10.src.rpm

confirm that ruby is installed

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% yum list installed ruby*|column -t|grep ruby
ruby.i386        1.8.6.287-2.fc10  installed
ruby-devel.i386  1.8.6.287-2.fc10  installed
ruby-irb.i386    1.8.6.287-2.fc10  installed
ruby-libs.i386   1.8.6.287-2.fc10  installed
ruby-rdoc.i386   1.8.6.287-2.fc10  installed

make sure you have your own rpmbuild directory

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% mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
 
# caution with this second command if you already have your own .rpmmacros, this will overwrite!
% echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros

rebuild vim / re-install vim

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rpmbuild --rebuild vim-7.2.148-1.fc10.src.rpm
rpm --force -Uvh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/vim-{c,e,m,X}*

check that vim now has ruby support

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% vim --version | grep ruby
+printer +profile +python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby +scrollbind 
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Ahh. a +ruby means it worked.

Textile Plugin for vim

Now onto installing the vim textile plugin.

First things first, we need to install rubygems

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% yum install rubygems

Next we need to install the RedCloth gem, it’s required by the textile plugin

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% gem install RedCloth
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed RedCloth-4.2.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for RedCloth-4.2.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for RedCloth-4.2.2...

Finally, install the textile plugin

Downloading the textile plugin from here,

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# unpack the zip
% unzip textile-0.3.zip
   creating: textile/
   creating: textile/doc/
  inflating: textile/doc/textile.txt  
   creating: textile/ftplugin/
  inflating: textile/ftplugin/textile.vim  
   creating: textile/plugin/
  inflating: textile/plugin/textile.vim  
   creating: textile/syntax/
  inflating: textile/syntax/textile.vim  
 
# cd into the textile dir
% cd textile
 
% tree .
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|-- doc
|   `-- textile.txt
|-- ftplugin
|   `-- textile.vim
|-- plugin
|   `-- textile.vim
`-- syntax
    `-- textile.vim
 
4 directories, 4 files
 
# install the plugin
% cp -r * ~/.vim/

screenshot of textile plugin in action

vim's textile plugin

vim's textile plugin

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 # add rpmfusion free % rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm # add rpmfusion nonfree % rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm   % yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gsteamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree % yum install xmms xmms-mp3

Couple of notes. I had previously installed atrpms, and xmms & xmms-libs from [...]]]> Quick list of the steps I needed to go through in order to get XMMS with MP3 support working on Fedora 10.

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# add rpmfusion free
% rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# add rpmfusion nonfree
% rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
 
% yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gsteamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree
% yum install xmms xmms-mp3

Couple of notes. I had previously installed atrpms, and xmms & xmms-libs from this repo which didn’t seem to be compatible from the fusion repos. So I disabled the atrpms repo in the /etc/yum.repo.d atrpms files and then ran this command.

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Thanks to Jack over on the Ghacks.net website for showing me the way on this one quickly. Saved me a ton of time in chasing this one down.

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  • Good description of CentOS repo resources here
  • Docs that discuss setting priorities with yum are available here
  • If you’re lazy like me and don’t want to mess with RPM hell I highly recommend switching to smart as your package manager which is available here
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 yum install rpm-build   mkdir -p ~/rpm mkdir -p ~/rpm/BUILD mkdir -p ~/rpm/RPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SOURCES mkdir -p ~/rpm/SPECS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SRPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/tmp   -or-   mkdir -p ~/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,tmp}

    And create the file ~/.rpmmacros with the following in it:

    1 2 3 %packager Your Name %_topdir /home/YOUR HOME DIR/rpm %_tmppath /home/YOUR HOME DIR/rpm/tmp Step 1b: the semi-automated way

    requirement: EPEL yum repository setup & [...]]]> Step 1a: the manual way

    NOTE: Lifted from Lic Fessden’s blog here

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    yum install rpm-build
 
mkdir -p ~/rpm
mkdir -p ~/rpm/BUILD
mkdir -p ~/rpm/RPMS
mkdir -p ~/rpm/SOURCES
mkdir -p ~/rpm/SPECS
mkdir -p ~/rpm/SRPMS
mkdir -p ~/rpm/tmp
 
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mkdir -p ~/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,tmp}

    And create the file ~/.rpmmacros with the following in it:

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    %packager Your Name
%_topdir /home/YOUR HOME DIR/rpm
%_tmppath /home/YOUR HOME DIR/rpm/tmp
    Step 1b: the semi-automated way

    requirement: EPEL yum repository setup & configured

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    yum install rpmdevtools
rpmdev-setuptree

    Step 2: Setting up a tarball
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    # make the pkg.
cd ~/rpm/SOURCES
mkdir ~/rpm/SOURCES/sam-1
cp <files/dirs> ~/rpm/SOURCES/sam-1
 
# tar the pkg.
tar czvf sam-1.tar.gz sam-1/
 
# make spec file (sam.spec)
cd ~/rpm/SPECS

    sam.spec

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    Summary: My first rpm script package
Name: sam
Version: 1
Release: 1
Source0: sam-1.tar.gz
License: GPL
Group: MyJunk
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot
%description
Make some relevant package description here
%prep
%setup -q
%build
%install
install -m 0755 -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/sam
install -m 0755 myscript.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/sam/myscript.sh
%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%post
echo " "
echo "This will display after rpm installs the package!"
%files
%dir /opt/sam
/opt/sam/myscript.sh

    A lot of that file is pretty self explanatory except the install lines and the lines after %file. The install lines tell rpm what to install where and with what permissions. You also have to do any directory creation there as well (the one with the -d in the line). The things after %file are similar in that this tells rpm’s database which files are attached to this package. The %dir signifies a new directory, otherwise the files are listed with their complete paths.

    Step 3: Building the RPM

    Now that you have all that together. The last thing you need do is create the package.

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rpmbuild -ba SPECS/sam.spec
# creates file: ~/rpm/RPMS/noarch/sam-1-1.noarch.rpm
    Further reading

    Found this handy PDF guide over on the gurulabs.com website. You can also download it directly from my site here.

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