[PlanetCCRMA] Issues after upgrading to RH9

[Joe Hartley]

Well, I definitely have problems here.

I got qjackctl compiled, but only after I did an "rpm --erase --nodeps
qt-designer qt qt-devel" on my system.  I first tried to get apt-get to
do a reinstall of packages, but it did some and not others.  (Note that I'd
put ReInstall "true"; in the APT::Get section of my /etc/apt/apt.conf file)

[jh@xtc jh]# apt-get install qt-designer qt2-Xt qt qt-devel qt2
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Reinstallation of qt-designer is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
Reinstallation of qt is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
Reinstallation of qt-devel is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4147kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu redhat/9/en/i386/os qt2 1:2.3.1-13 [4124kB]
Get:2 http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu redhat/9/en/i386/os qt2-Xt 1:2.3.1-13 [23.8kB]
Fetched 4147kB in 12s (326kB/s)                                                
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/qt2_1%3a2.3.1-13_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:qt2                    ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:qt2-Xt                 ########################################### [100%]

Why just these 2 and not the others?  I dunno.  But at any rate, I did
the rpm --erase as noted above, then did the apt-get on the 3 packages that
I couldn't re-install.  That went fine, and I was then able to compile
qjackctl just fine.

This raises the very serious question of how to get my system completely
up to speed on RH9.  Since I'd already had a system that was up to date on
Redhat 7.3 when I ran the upgrade to RH9.0, some, if not most of my packages
are compiled with gcc2.95.  This, as we have seen, is a problem when trying
to build new software with gcc3.2.2!

I think I may take a list of the installed packages and force reinstallation
of all of 'em...  that'd be easier than re-installing RH9 and letting it
scrag my / partition, anyway....

Thoughts????

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       Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@brainiac.com
Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa