Frustrated trying to install missing functions

From: Clifford Stern (ax810_at_lafn.org)
Date: 04/30/05 

Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:52:09 GMT

Last summer I purchased a new computer running Lindows 4.5 which is
based on linux. Unfortunately, the Lindows people stripped away crucial
linux functions which they then offer to sell back to us for $50 through
their proprietary system CNR ("Click and Run"). My efforts to get around
this by using RPM files have been spectacularly unsuccessful. For
example, I found the following discussion on the Internet:

>...go to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/i586/ where you will find
> a huge range of .rpm files with the missing commands.

> I downloaded the following:

> make-3.80-184.i586
> gcc-3.3.3-41.i586

> The latter needs a couple of extra files first (as you will be told if you try to
> install it first without them)

> glibc-devel-2.3.3-98.i586
> binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-31.i586

This was very exciting to read, because "make" and "gcc" are just what I
needed. I even went to the trouble of learning to program in the C
language in order to use gcc. But alas, every attempt to install any of
these results in a long list of failed dependencies. For example, here
is the output from glibc-devel-2.3.3-98.i586:

Happy:/aliquot# rpm -ihv glibc-*.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        /bin/rm is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        glibc = 2.3.3 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        /bin/sh is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        /bin/sh is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        /usr/bin/perl is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        libc.so.6 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        libdl.so.2 is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98
        libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by glibc-devel-2.3.3-98

What is especially mystifying is that several of the above are in fact
present in my system: /bin/rm, /bin/sh and /usr/bin/perl. And every
attempt to install any of the needed libc or libdl items produces yet
another long list of failed dependencies. The only explanation I can
think of is that there is incompatibility due to different versions of
linux.

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.

Clifford Stern
ax810@lafn.org

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