Python 2.1 dependencies

[Bruce Wolk]

Joal Heagney wrote:

> Bruce Wolk wrote:
> >
> > On an RH 7.1 system I rebuilt the source RPMs for Python 2.1.  But when
> > I tried to install  expat-1.1-3tummy.i386.rpm, I got the following error
> >
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >                     libexpat.so.0   is needed by abiword-0.7.13-2
> >
> > This is odd, since  /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 is present on my system, but
> > also what does Python have to do with abiword?
> >
> > Bruce
>
> Abiword wants libexpat. That much I can figure out, but I'm still
> confused how you got that message. If expat-*tummy replaces whatever
> package libexpat.so.0 comes in but doesn't have libexpat.so.0 itself
> you'll get that message. (Basically abiword is saying, "Hey, I still
> need that.") Now I don't know why expat-tummy wants to overwrite
> libexpat.so.0, that's what's got me confused. A listing of expat-tummy
> only gives
>
> /usr/bin/xmlwf
> /usr/include/expat/xmlparse.h
> /usr/lib/libexpat.a
> /usr/share/doc/expat-1.1
> /usr/share/doc/expat-1.1/expat.html
>
> Of course if you're really worried about this, you could always
> uninstall abiword.
>
> Joal Heagney/AncientHart

I decided to cross my fingers and install the rpms using  "--nodeps " and so
far everything seems to work fine, including abiword.

Bruce