Re: apt install with an amd64 under SuSE 9.1

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Roy F. Cabaniss wrote:

> Been using apt on SuSE for a while and have loved it until now.  Just got my 
> AMD-64 (which rocks if you have to do video rendering or heavy duty 
> computing) .  After doing a fresh install of SuSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel  which I 
> also have some good things to say about) I do my traditional Yast Online 
> Update to get the system to baseline.  Then go to install apt.  Get apt 
> 0.5.15, apt libs 0.5.15 and synaptic 0.48.2. and go to install....  I then 
> get the following error messages.
> 
> -- rpm -ihv *.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libpopt.so.0 is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         librpm-4.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         librpmio-4.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         libpopt.so.0 is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         librpm-4.1.so is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         librpmio-4.1.so is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
>         libzvt2 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
>         scrollkeeper is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
>         libglade-2.0.so.0 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
>         libpopt.so.0 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
>         librpm-4.1.so is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
>         librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
>         librpmio-4.1.so is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
>         libzvt-2.0.so.0 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
> 
> Hmmm, it cannot find some libraries.  Check and at least some of those 
> libraries are installed in /usr/lib64.  Is SuSE not looking in /usr/lib64 
> when the rpm is invoked?  Make symbolic link to /lib and /lib64.  Does not 
> work.  So, apt needs those libs and cannot find them.  
> 
> Shall I simply wait for a few weeks for the 64 bit version to have the bugs 
> worked out, is there a relativly simple solution or workaround?

Are you sure you're installing version of apt (and synaptic) built for
x86_64? Sounds to me like you're trying to install i386 apt package which
fails because the necessary libraries (popt, rpm etc) are 64bit, not 32bit
like the package expects. Either rebuild the apt package from src.rpm 
yourself or find an x86_64.rpm package for Suse.

	- Panu -