Problem Installing Kmuddy

I'm trying to install Kmuddy onto opensuse 10.2, but I keep getting strange errors. If I try to run the rpm through yast, it gives me one of two errors,

1st: the the file doesn't exist. Considering that I opened the file and then told it to install with yast, this strikes me as odd.

If I try again after that, it tells me that the installer is already in use. Which it was... but has since closed.

If I try to use the terminal:
dir
total 1044
-rw-r--r-- 1 Jumuraa users 1058418 2008-05-27 20:48 kmuddy-0.8-1.src.rpm

rpmbuild --rebuild kmuddy-0.8-1src.rpm
error: cannot open kmuddy-0.8-1src.rpm: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

just a wild guess, but try specifying a path i.e. rpmbuild ./kmuddy

otherwise, there are a few other decent mud clients floating around. I like alclient.

same error

So I tried install using the .src.rpm and got this error returned.

rpmbuild -rebuild kmuddy-0.8-1.src.rpm
rpmbuild: arguments to --root (-r) must begin with a /

what does that mean?

Were you root when you did this?

Yes, did it again just to be sure. Same return.

I tried it again with an extra "-"

rpmbuild --rebuild kmuddy-0.8-1.src.rpm
Installing kmuddy-0.8-1.src.rpm
warning: user tomas does not exist - using root
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
error: line 16: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL

I haven't installed anything that I am aware of, or changed any settings. So far I view this as an improvement. At least it is trying to install now.

Update:

So I tried the binary rpm for opensuse 10.1:
rpm --install kmuddy-0.8-1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libexpat.so.0 is needed by kmuddy-0.8-1.i586
libmxp.so.0 is needed by kmuddy-0.8-1.i586
libslang-utf8.so.1 is needed by kmuddy-0.8-1.i586

I understand that this means that these files don't exist, or that it doesn't know where they are. I tried installing the libmxp from the site. I'm not sure if this is right, but if it's how you install the .src.rpm for kmuddy, I guessed it would work for the libmxp src.rpm.

This is what I got:
rpmbuild --rebuild libmxp-0.2.2-1.src.rpm
Installing libmxp-0.2.2-1.src.rpm
warning: user tomas does not exist - using root
warning: group tomas does not exist - using root
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
error: line 8: Unknown tag: Copyright: LGPL

I don't even know where to begin with the other two missing packages. I haven't been able to find them, or what they are for.

Any ideas on what to try next?

I was directed to this site as a possible solution:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/i...p/t-118593.html

I followed what it said about changing the "Copyright" to "license." And got this:

rpmbuild -ba libmxp.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.37997
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ rm -rf libmxp-0.2.2
+ /usr/bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/libmxp-0.2.2.tar.gz
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd libmxp-0.2.2
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 0 = 0 ']'
+ /bin/chown -Rhf root .
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 0 = 0 ']'
+ /bin/chgrp -Rhf root .
+ /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.37997
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ /bin/rm -rf /tmp/libmxp-0.2.2
++ dirname /tmp/libmxp-0.2.2
+ /bin/mkdir -p /tmp
+ /bin/mkdir /tmp/libmxp-0.2.2
+ cd libmxp-0.2.2
++ echo -O2 -g -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE
=2
++ sed -e 's/-m\(.86\)/-mcpu=i\1/g'
+ RPM_OPT_FLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTI
FY_SOURCE=2'
+ ./configure.good
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ comp iler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.37997 (%build)

RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.37997 (%build)

I am completely out of my depth here. I have no clue what it's saying. Help?

I'm not sure if I ever got kmuddy to compile. I certainly haven;t played with it since before I moved to 10.3 from 10.2

Try just installing the srpm and then compiling the source?

./configure
make
su root
make install

seems like the problems you're having are with rpm, and not with gcc.