[Asterisk-Users] Gnophone installation problems

[Vic Cross]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Martin Mielke wrote:
> Why do I need to install from RPM when I already included the Mozilla 
> lib directories in /etc/ld.so.conf and issued a 'ldconfig' command? The 
> system should know where to look for the needed libraries already...

"The system" might (depending on how you define "the system"), but RPM
definitely does not.  RPM does not check the filesystem for what may or
may not be installed.  It has a database for that purpose, which is
updated when you install/remove packages.  If you installed something, and
did not use an RPM to do so, RPM does not know anything about the
components that you installed.  This is RPM 101.

Somebody else wrote:
> > or use --nodeps

And Martin replied:
> That wasn't a good move either:

I'm not surprised.  Using --nodeps on an RPM package install is just plain
wrong -- any software that requires it to install is broken.  Run (don't
walk) from any maintainer that tells you to use it to install their
package.  This (IMHO) should also be in RPM 101.  :)

Your ways forward in this case are: 

1) Find an RPM of Mozilla to suit your distro (accepting that you might 
not get the version of Mozilla that you want), then try re-installing the 
gnophone RPM

2) Use a suitable .spec file to build an RPM of Mozilla to suit your 
distro (if you really must have a version of Mozilla for which there is no 
existing RPM), then try re-installing the gnophone RPM

3) Build and install gnophone from source (if you want to keep your 
existing Mozilla install)

I'd suggest taking further questions on this away from this list, as it is 
really not on-topic for Asterisk...

Cheers,
Vic Cross