I know that this is late but have you tried using something like apt-get. I was talking to a
friend and he said that it works or every linux os is some version or another. I am using SUSE
and I tried apt4suse. It didn't work because I filled my hard drive, but I have now cleaned the
pc and now ready to try again. Just try apt-get and see.
William
--- SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Monday 19 December 2005 04:51 pm, R P Herrold wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, SOTL wrote:
> > > After diligent research I have determined that I am short three packages:
> > >
> > > libmyodbc1-3.51.11-2mdk
> > > libmyodbc1-devel-3.51.11-2mdk
> > > MyODBC-3.51.11-2mdk
> > >
> > > I was promptly informed that I had a dependency issue and that I also
> > > needed to install them.
> >
> > (the dependencies, that is.)
> >
> > The nameing and namespace confusion between the variaous
> > RPM based distributions will never be solved, as there is
> > not central package nameig authority whcih _must_ be
> > obeyed. Let's see what they were built from:
> >
> > rpm -qip libmyodbc1-3.51.11-2mdk* MyODBC-3.51.11-2mdk*
> >
> > against the binary packages will indicate in on the right hand
> > column. then the source RPM's may be located, and possibly
> > rebuilt locally, along with (hopefully) easily determined
> > 'BuildRequires'
> >
> > - Russ Herrold
> >
>
> It is much worse than that.
>
> I was also able to determine that I probably needed 3 packages:
>
> libmyodbc1-3.51.11-2mdk
> libmyodbc1-devel-3.51.11-2mdk
> MyODBC-3.51.11-2mdk
>
> I was able to find that one may obtain all available packages for Mandrake
> {one has to have Mandrake to use this resource] from:
>
> http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
>
> which of course has the three packages but it also has a large number of other
> relevant packages since Easy UPRMI functions through Mandrake's add program
> and update system. So, that leads to a lot of confusion as I am not certain
> that the above packages are adequate for obtaining a OpenOffice to MySQL ODBC
> connection.
>
> When I attempted to install the above 3 packages I need over 100 dependency
> packages. TO me that does not sound right as that is very drastically
> different from the packages that I downloaded from MySQL in order to make
> connection.
>
> Then of course there is the issue of JDBC connection. Which is equally
> confusing considering the number of packages that Mandrake says are required
> and the ones Sun says are required.
>
> Bottom line to my attempts, so far to making a OpenOffice to MySQL connection
> is that Mandrake dependency list is indication I need over 1,000 [Yes that is
> over a thousand] packages and ODBC.org and Sun are indicating a total of less
> than 10.
>
> On reflection I believe I was about where I am now with making these
> connections about 6 months ago and at that time I decided that it might be
> best to wait for some of the more computer enlightened aggregation types to
> sort this mess out in a later distribution of either Red Hat, Mandrake, or
> SuSE.
>
> My current feelings is that that was a wise decision and that somewhere about
> March or April I will be able to download an open distribution that may be up
> to the level of making a data base connection.
>
> Meanwhile, it might be best for me to go back to work doing something
> productive that wards off bankruptcy and starvation.
>
> SOTL
>
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