Hi All,
tried to install the RPM for bittorrent, and got the following,
[root@localhost bittorrent]# rpm -Uvh BitTorrent-4.2.2-1-Python2.3.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: python(abi) = 2.3 is needed by BitTorrent-4.2.2-1.noarch [root@localhost bittorrent]# python -V Python 2.3.4
why is this so, when I have 2.3.4. Is this RPM only compatible with 2.3, not 2.3.1-4? Little confused. Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
On 1/21/06, Mark Sargent powderkeg@snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
Hi All,
tried to install the RPM for bittorrent, and got the following,
There isn't just THE rpm for bittorrent, there are several. Which one are you using, and was it made for centos?
why is this so, when I have 2.3.4. Is this RPM only compatible with 2.3, not 2.3.1-4? Little confused. Cheers.
Yes. It was built against a specific version, and that's what it wants.
Try using the EL4 bittorrent rpms from rpmforge, or dag.wieers.com directly. You can even use yum to get them, which will simplify things for you immensely. There are several good repositories that work to add things like bittorrent to centos.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
Jim Perrin wrote:
There isn't just THE rpm for bittorrent, there are several. Which one are you using, and was it made for centos?
got it from bittorrent official site
why is this so, when I have 2.3.4. Is this RPM only compatible with 2.3, not 2.3.1-4? Little confused. Cheers.
Yes. It was built against a specific version, and that's what it wants.
ok, think I'l update Python to ver 4, and use the RPM for 4
Try using the EL4 bittorrent rpms from rpmforge, or dag.wieers.com directly. You can even use yum to get them, which will simplify things for you immensely. There are several good repositories that work to add things like bittorrent to centos.
tnx, but, there is a reason for installing the original, core, bittorrent, as I'm following this site,
http://lue.dyn.dhs.org/2005/20050708135201.html
Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 13:52 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
There isn't just THE rpm for bittorrent, there are several. Which one are you using, and was it made for centos?
got it from bittorrent official site
That isn't built for CentOS and requires a newer version of python.
If you do as Jim suggested, you will get a version of bittorrent that works with CentOS-4.
Either the rpmforge version OR the one in kbs-CentOS-Extras will work.
rpmforge: http://rpmforge.net/user/faq/
kbs-CentOS-Extras: http://centos.karan.org/
I would not change the version of python that ships with CentOS .. as it affects yum, up2date, rpm and many other very important system programs ... your call though, it's your machine :)
got it from bittorrent official site
ok, think I'l update Python to ver 4, and use the RPM for 4
This isn't a hot idea. You're most likely going to wreck yum and several other apps as johnny points out. Building from source on an rpm based distro isn't a good idea. To top it off, when it breaks and you ask for help, we're probably going to tell you to use the packages centos shipped with.
tnx, but, there is a reason for installing the original, core, bittorrent,
Dag's bittorrent IS the core bittorrent. It's simply rebuilt against our version of python.
as I'm following this site, http://lue.dyn.dhs.org/2005/20050708135201.html
It's nice to know that you're willing to wreck your system because someone wrote something an article that's distro neutral. You need to keep in mind that each distribution has their own slightly different ways of doing things. It's best to ask questions about how to get things running within the distro community. They'll tell you the right ways to do things, and the centos community both on irc and on the mailing list has tremendous amounts of good information.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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