Python 2.1 dependencies

[Joal Heagney]

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