Petrus B. van Bork
2007-Dec-15 21:44 UTC
[Xen-users] New Xen install over SuSE 10.3. Installed bridge-utils not seen by Xen RPM
Dear List Colleagues: Alas, I am something of a Linux newbie as well as a real Xen newbie. Have been preparing a brand new machine to run Xen and decided to install the SuSE distro. When I rpm''d the appropriate Xen files I originally got a number of dependency errors. I am down to one - "Failed dependencies: bridge-utils is needed by xen-3.1.0-1.i686" I have Yasted the requisite files several times. I have made sure those files are compiled - autoconf, ./configure and make. I have ensured that there is a brctl.exe in the sbin directory. Issuing the brctl command gives "Usage: brctl [commands]..." etc....the usual menu of commands. I have read bridge-util documentation and searched the net till I am blue in the face! If someone has any idea what I have done wrong, I would be most grateful for any pointers. Best, Petrus _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Jens Seidel
2008-Jan-19 12:36 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] New Xen install over SuSE 10.3. Installed bridge-utils not seen by Xen RPM
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:44:20PM -0500, Petrus B. van Bork wrote:> Alas, I am something of a Linux newbie > as well as a real Xen newbie. Have been preparing a brand new machine > to run Xen and decided to install the SuSE distro. When I rpm''d theI think that Debian is a more stable, simplifies upgrades and has much more packages. But a newbie may indeed prefer YaST ...> appropriate Xen files I originally got a number of dependency errors. I > am down to one - > > "Failed dependencies: bridge-utils is needed by xen-3.1.0-1.i686" > > I have Yasted the requisite files several times. I have madeA simple question: Did you installed the bridge-utils via YaST or not? Verify with: $ rpm -qa | grep bridge Does it output bridge-utils, is the rpm package installed?> sure those files are compiled - autoconf, ./configure and make. I haveCompiling your own binary would not be recognized as rpm dependency. If a rpm package requires bridge-utils than it refers to the rpm package not a binary somewhere in your system! You''re free to compile from source (but I hope you didn''t used --prefix=/usr but --prefix=usr/local as configure option as all files in /usr (except /usr/local) are owned by rpm packages.). There are so called source rpm packages which can be used to rebuild a rpm package from source (using rpmbuild command). But don''t do this in this case. It is not necessary!> ensured that there is a brctl.exe in the sbin directory. Issuing theI''m sure no program whould ever start brctl.exe. Maybe brctl ...> brctl command gives "Usage: brctl [commands]..." etc....the usual menu > of commands. > > I have read bridge-util documentation and searched the net till I > am blue in the face! If someone has any idea what I have done wrong, I > would be most grateful for any pointers.Just install the rpm package so that it is listed in the rpm database as installed. That''s all! Jens _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users