Error: Build dependencies

Casey Harkins caseyharkins at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 09:49:00 EDT 2008


I'm assuming you ran 'yum -builddep' (note the space between 'yum' and
'-builddep') rather than 'yum-builddep' which is what you wanted (from
the yum-utils package).

You're probably missing the devel versions of the packages in question
(i.e. gstreamer-devel, etc).

-casey


On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 13:04 +0530, Rajith Ravi wrote:
> hi lee
> 
> i tried  sudo yum-builddep pidgin
> 
> but getting error
> 
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Usage: yum [options] < grouplist, localinstall, groupinfo,
> localupdate, resolvedep, erase, deplist, groupremove, makecache,
> upgrade, provides, shell, install, whatprovides, groupinstall, update,
> repolist, groupupdate, info, search, check-update, list, remove,
> clean, grouperase >
> 
> Command line error: no such option: -b
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> rajith
> 
> 2008/7/29 Lee Roach <phroggster at gmail.com>
>         2008/7/29 Rajith Ravi <reju.ashes at gmail.com>
>         
>                 hi all
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 i am trying to build a localized version of pidgin
>                 2.4.1 in Fedora 7.
>                 after the successful completion of translation and
>                 when trying to create rpm am getting an error
>                 
>                 rpmbuild -ba pidgin.spec
>                 error: Failed build dependencies:
>                         intltool is needed by pidgin-2.4.1-0.i386
>                         /usr/include/tcl.h is needed by
>                 pidgin-2.4.1-0.i386
>                         gstreamer-devel >= 0.10 is needed by
>                 pidgin-2.4.1-0.i386
>                         perl-XML-Parser is needed by
>                 pidgin-2.4.1-0.i386
>                 
>                 
>                 i installed all the dependencies but no further
>                 improvement.
>                 
>                 can anyone help?
>                 
>                 regards
>                 
>                 Rajith
>                 
>                 
>                 
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>         
>         (Missed the reply-all, here it is again for the record)
>         
>         
>         Did you install the dependencies manually, or via yum/rpm? If
>         manually, rpmbuild doesn't know that you have those libraries
>         installed, and could cause this error. Try the following to
>         automagically install whatever pidgin requires to build:
>         
>         sudo yum-builddep pidgin
>         
>         --Lee
>         
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