Opened 11 years ago
Last modified 11 years ago
#497 new bug
Cannot install Singular rpm on Fedora 19
| Reported by: | Owned by: | mschulze | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 3-2-0 and higher |
| Component: | dontKnow | Version: | 3-1-6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Hi, the rpm packages for Singular-core (3-1-6, shared and static) don't install in Fedora 19. Yum exits with the error that "file /usr/bin from the install of Singular-core conflicts with file system .."
This happened both for installing from the Singular repository and from downloading the rpm files. This appears to be a packaging bug of many third party applications on Fedora 18 and 19 because the packages claim to own /usr/bin which they aren't suppose to.
See comment 3 on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870655
After some searching the same workaround for google-earth also works for Singular. Namely, install rpmrebuild and use it to edit the spec files of the Singular-core.rpm packags and remove the line ' %dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/bin"' After than installation completed successfully.
For details about the workaround (comment 32) h t t p :code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/detail?id=1525
The editor that comes up is vi, so press return to get to the target line, type x to remove it and than :wq! to save and exit.
Please fix the packaging bug and in the mean time hope that the workaround may help someone with the same issue.
Thanks!
will be fixed with the next Singular release