Install error

[John Dennis]

Olavo Dietrich wrote:
> All right,
>
> Yes, I have tried the rpm and got failed dependencies. Then I tried to
> install the dependencies and got another failed dependencies. So , I was in
> a loop, and decided to go with the source.
>
> It looks like it won't be as simple as I thought.
>
> rpm -ivh freeradius-2.1.1-2.fc10.x86_64.rpm 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libcrypto.so.7()(64bit) is needed by freeradius-2.1.1-2.fc10.x86_64
>         libssl.so.7()(64bit) is needed by freeradius-2.1.1-2.fc10.x86_64 
>
> Thank you for your help. I'll try the rpms again.
>   
The problem is you're not using an rpm installer, but trying to install 
an rpm directly. yum is the rpm installer for fedora and RHEL.

% yum --enable-repo fedora-development install freeradius

Just be careful, this is "rawhide" the latest bits, to solve 
dependencies yum might pull in a lot of stuff.

You can also do a local build and avoid the issues with pulling in 
dependencies from rawhide.

If rpmbuild is not installed, then install it.

% yum install rpm-build

Get the latest srpm from 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=298

Click on the latest build, download the srpm and install the srpm via 
'rpm -ihv <path to downloaded srpm)

% rpmbuild -ba freeradius.spec

rpmbuild might complain about missing dependencies, for each missing 
dependency do a yum install for the missing dependency. This will pull 
in dependencies for your current OS version, probably what you want 
(instead of rawhide).

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>