Dependency on Lazarus RPM installation = nightmare

**I_am_root** · 20-08-2006, 10:20 PM

- I use Mandriva 2006 Free (3 CDs).
- I have NO internet => I use my friend's computer (who uses Win32).
- I worked for 40 minutes to find RPM's dependency; a found RPM gave another dependency ;;; forty minutes of clickety-click and flip-flop (I use disquettes for transfer) and dependency-not-solved error => Nightmare;

Do you have a (1) solution? THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

**JSoftware** · 21-08-2006, 10:26 AM

why not just hook your computer up to your friends'?

Other than that i have no solution for you

solving rpm dependencies with a floppy disk... poor soul

**marmin** · 22-08-2006, 04:31 AM

Lazarus needs a lot of packages to work. On linux i don't know anything that has them all included. windows is just one installer.

**WILL** · 22-08-2006, 05:40 AM

You know... the one installer appraoch for Linux wouldn't hurt. I know that the fanatic would start screaming haricy, but in a windows installation you can recompiler without being setup like Linux. So is it really all that important that you *have to* have only a Linux-style installation for it?

**marmin** · 24-08-2006, 02:24 AM

There are one installer packages for Linux, Autopackage. Maybe Lazarus is a bit too beta for such a package manager. In the mean time it's a pain to install.

**sekelsenmat** · 25-08-2006, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by marmin

There are one installer packages for Linux, Autopackage. Maybe Lazarus is a bit too beta for such a package manager. In the mean time it's a pain to install.

I think it¬¥s the opposite. Autopackage is too beta for Lazarus. Please do a google search for "Autopackage Gentoo" or "Autopackage Ubuntu" without quotes, and you will find many ]http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/autopackage/[/url]

Autopackage is considered to be completely unsuitable by most (all?) major distributions.

The way to solve dependencies on linux is using a dependency solving tool. And for Mandriva Linux that tool is URPMI, you should use that.

Unfortunately that tool requires a internet connecting to be used, so I¬¥m afraid the best thing to do is take your computer to a place with internet access and install the necessary packages there. It¬¥s a pain, but remember you only have to do it once to get Lazarus working.