Re: [Pan-users] Dependency hell with Pan on SL

[Duncan]

Beartooth posted on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:22:48 +0000 as excerpted:

> I'm running Scientific Linux 6 on one machine, and getting this :
> 
>       package gmime-2.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686 (which is newer than
> gmime-2.4.7-1.99.el6.i686) is already installed address@hidden btth]# rpm
> -ivh pan-0.134-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm error: Failed dependencies:
>       libgmime-2.4.so.2 is needed by pan-1:0.134-1.el6.rf.i686
> address@hidden btth]#
> 
>       What can I do??

I'm definitely not an rpm guy (my last personal experience with it is ~7 
years ago now) and neither am I a gnome guy (my last personal experience 
with it is even farther back, when gnome-2 first came out, IIRC, and I 
decided that if they didn't even have a color config dialog, something 
even the servantware ms could do, it was clearly something I wished to 
say away from), but based on a quick look here on gentoo, which doesn't 
appear to have gnome3 in the main tree yet (but not being a gnome guy I 
may have simply checked the wrong packages for the 3.x version I expected 
if gnome3 was available), *AND* doesn't have gmime-2.5 yet either, I'm 
/guessing/ it may be related to gnome3.

If I'm not mistaken, pan-0.134 didn't yet support gnome3, but there's 
definitely support for gnome3 in khaley's git repo, and I believe it made 
it into 0.135 as well.

Further, even if I'm wrong about gmime-2.5 being a gnome3 thing, it's 
quite likely that pan-0.135 supports it as well.

So, I'd suggest trying an upgrade to pan-0.135.  You may have to either 
build it yourself or try an rpm from another distro, however.  A quick 
look at rpmfind.net (which I used a lot back in my mandrake days, often 
installing rpms from rawhide on my mandrake based machine) shows only 
mandriva rpms for pan-0.135 as yet.  (Which I find a bit ironic as back 
in the day, even mandrake cooker seemed to be behind rawhide, yet now, 
rawhide's not one, but TWO versions stale, 0.133.)

Alternatively, you can try overriding the dependency and installing 
pan-0.134 (which I'm presuming you are trying to do, you didn't exactly 
say), and see if it works despite the stated package dependency.

Alternatively, you can try (possibly force-)downgrading gmime, but that's 
likely to cause problems for any other packages built against the higher 
version.

If it were me, I'd try the mandriva pan-0.135 package.  If it doesn't 
work, you can always uninstall it and try something else.

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