Dependencies problems while installing Phinx

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Hi all

If I point the RTP (6.1 on an x86) pkg installer to
http://betas.qnx.com/phinx, I can start installing but I get the
following unsatisfied dependencies:

  • photon_core_patchC
  • xphoton_core_patchA

The pkg installer try to search these pkgs but it does not suxceed…

I’ve tried to found some package/patch into the QNX WWW repository…
but my system seems to be up-to-date (patch A installed…).

What can I do ?

Thanx!

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  • Davide Ancri - Prisma Engineering
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Hi all

If I point the RTP (6.1 on an x86) pkg installer to
http://betas.qnx.com/phinx> , I can start installing but I get the
following unsatisfied dependencies:

  • photon_core_patchC
  • xphoton_core_patchA

The pkg installer try to search these pkgs but it does not suxceed…

I’ve tried to found some package/patch into the QNX WWW repository…
but my system seems to be up-to-date (patch A installed…).

What can I do ?

Thanx!

PING !

… no hints ?

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  • Davide Ancri - Prisma Engineering
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I don’t have a good answer for you. But I have tried to install that package
and had the same problem. It’s a very old package, which is not very well
composed. On the screen showing the unsatisfied dependencies, it’s possible
to hit the install button anyway, but the packages will be installed as
inactive, and they probably wouldn’t work anyway.

Someone else will have to tell you where to find a good Phinx package,
including XPhoton.

Jerry Chappell

“Wenge” <nonhol@aperama.rti> wrote in message
news:3CF49C02.7D836F32@aperama.rti…

Hi all

If I point the RTP (6.1 on an x86) pkg installer to
http://betas.qnx.com/phinx> , I can start installing but I get the
following unsatisfied dependencies:

  • photon_core_patchC
  • xphoton_core_patchA

The pkg installer try to search these pkgs but it does not suxceed…

I’ve tried to found some package/patch into the QNX WWW repository…
but my system seems to be up-to-date (patch A installed…).

What can I do ?

Thanx!

PING !

… no hints ?

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  • Davide Ancri - Prisma Engineering
  • email = davidea AT prisma DASH eng DOT it
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Jerry Chappell wrote:

I don’t have a good answer for you. But I have tried to install that package
and had the same problem. It’s a very old package, which is not very well
composed. On the screen showing the unsatisfied dependencies, it’s possible
to hit the install button anyway, but the packages will be installed as
inactive, and they probably wouldn’t work anyway.

Someone else will have to tell you where to find a good Phinx package,
including XPhoton.

Jerry Chappell

Thanx anyway, Jerry…

…Hey QNX boys! … some hints ??

Thanks in advance!


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Wenge wrote:

Jerry Chappell wrote:

I don’t have a good answer for you. But I have tried to install that package
and had the same problem. It’s a very old package, which is not very well
composed. On the screen showing the unsatisfied dependencies, it’s possible
to hit the install button anyway, but the packages will be installed as
inactive, and they probably wouldn’t work anyway.

Someone else will have to tell you where to find a good Phinx package,
including XPhoton.

Jerry Chappell


Thanx anyway, Jerry…

…Hey QNX boys! … some hints ??

Thanks in advance!

Here’s how it’s done…

Create a directory - I named mine /usr/X11R6.6.1/lib
and put the following libraries and directories from a 6.1
installation into it:

X11/ libX11.so.6 libXmu.so.6 liboldX.so.6
lib/ libXIE.so.6 libXp.so. libsocket.so.1
libICE.so.6 libXaw.so.6 libXpm.so.4
libMrm.so.1 libXext.so.6 libXt.so.6
libPEX5.so.6 libXi.so.6 libXtst.so.6
libSM.so.6 libXm.so.1 libc.so.1

I have made no effort to determine how many of these libraries
are actually necessary. Notice that libsocket.so.1 and libc.so.1
both came from /lib, not from /usr/X11R6/lib.

Copy the file /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.1 from a 6.1 installation into
the /usr/lib directory.

Install the phinx package. When it takes you to the “missing
dependencies” screen, click the install button quickly to go
on and install the package in disabled mode.

Edit the file: /etc/system/package/packages
and add the line

QPF:itemqnx/phinx/core-1.0</QPF:item>

above the existing line

QPF:subitemqnx/phinx/core-1.0/x86</QPF:subitem>

Start the odl package manager and use the file menu item
“Restart the package filesystem”.

Create a shell alias or a shell script (I named mine “phx”)
like this:

alias phx=‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6.6.1/lib /usr/photon/bin/phinx
-geometry 1020x744+0+0’

Now to run phinx, use the phx alias.

Cheers,
Andrew

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Thanks for the detailed info Andrew!
In your notes, you kept mentioning “copying from a qnx 6.1 installation”,
isn’t your note for qnx 6.1?
I don’t believe the old phinx will work for qnx 6.2.
As for qnx 6.0, the default phinx installation should probably work
directly, given the fact the old phinx was created in the old
qnx 6.0 days?

Frank


Andrew Thomas <andrew@cogent.ca.no.spam> wrote:

Wenge wrote:
Jerry Chappell wrote:

I don’t have a good answer for you. But I have tried to install that package
and had the same problem. It’s a very old package, which is not very well
composed. On the screen showing the unsatisfied dependencies, it’s possible
to hit the install button anyway, but the packages will be installed as
inactive, and they probably wouldn’t work anyway.

Someone else will have to tell you where to find a good Phinx package,
including XPhoton.

Jerry Chappell


Thanx anyway, Jerry…

…Hey QNX boys! … some hints ??

Thanks in advance!

Here’s how it’s done…

Create a directory - I named mine /usr/X11R6.6.1/lib
and put the following libraries and directories from a 6.1
installation into it:

X11/ libX11.so.6 libXmu.so.6 liboldX.so.6
lib/ libXIE.so.6 libXp.so. libsocket.so.1
libICE.so.6 libXaw.so.6 libXpm.so.4
libMrm.so.1 libXext.so.6 libXt.so.6
libPEX5.so.6 libXi.so.6 libXtst.so.6
libSM.so.6 libXm.so.1 libc.so.1

I have made no effort to determine how many of these libraries
are actually necessary. Notice that libsocket.so.1 and libc.so.1
both came from /lib, not from /usr/X11R6/lib.

Copy the file /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.1 from a 6.1 installation into
the /usr/lib directory.

Install the phinx package. When it takes you to the “missing
dependencies” screen, click the install button quickly to go
on and install the package in disabled mode.

Edit the file: /etc/system/package/packages
and add the line

QPF:item>qnx/phinx/core-1.0</QPF:item

above the existing line

QPF:subitem>qnx/phinx/core-1.0/x86</QPF:subitem

Start the odl package manager and use the file menu item
“Restart the package filesystem”.

Create a shell alias or a shell script (I named mine “phx”)
like this:

alias phx=‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6.6.1/lib /usr/photon/bin/phinx
-geometry 1020x744+0+0’

Now to run phinx, use the phx alias.

Cheers,
Andrew

7

Thanks a ton, Andrew!

I’ve suxceeded in installing and starting phinx; I have not created
another /usr/X11R6.XXX/lib dir… instead, I have used the existing
/usr/X11R6/lib (on a 6.1 RTP machine).

Here’s what I have followed of your procedure… with a few changes.

Install the phinx package. When it takes you to the “missing
dependencies” screen, click the install button quickly to go
on and install the package in disabled mode.

Edit the file: /etc/system/package/packages
and add the line

QPF:itemqnx/phinx/core-1.0</QPF:item>

above the existing line

QPF:subitemqnx/phinx/core-1.0/x86</QPF:subitem>

Into the package manager use the file menu item
“Restart the package filesystem”.

Create a shell alias or a shell script (I named mine “phx”) like this:

alias phx=‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:/lib /usr/photon/bin/phinx
-geometry 1020x744+0+0 -display’

Now to run phinx, telnet into the RTP box and use the phx alias as
follows:

$ phx <Xserver_name>:0

It works! Thanx again…

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Frank Liu wrote:

Thanks for the detailed info Andrew!
In your notes, you kept mentioning “copying from a qnx 6.1 installation”,
isn’t your note for qnx 6.1?
I don’t believe the old phinx will work for qnx 6.2.
As for qnx 6.0, the default phinx installation should probably work
directly, given the fact the old phinx was created in the old
qnx 6.0 days?

Frank

I’m sorry. I’m schizophrenic on 6.1 and 6.2 these days.
In 6.1 I had no problem installing phinx and just running
it. The instructions I posted were for running phinx
under 6.2(beta), using the ancient 6.0 phinx package.

Cheers,
Andrew

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Andrew Thomas <andrew@cogent.ca.no.spam> wrote:

I’m sorry. I’m schizophrenic on 6.1 and 6.2 these days.
In 6.1 I had no problem installing phinx and just running

really?
I tried that old 6.0 phinx package with 6.1 sometime ago, but
got this “dependency” error. I am wondering how come you
got no problem.

frank

it. The instructions I posted were for running phinx
under 6.2(beta), using the ancient 6.0 phinx package.

Cheers,
Andrew

10

Frank Liu wrote:

Andrew Thomas <> andrew@cogent.ca.no.spam> > wrote:

I’m sorry. I’m schizophrenic on 6.1 and 6.2 these days.
In 6.1 I had no problem installing phinx and just running


really?
I tried that old 6.0 phinx package with 6.1 sometime ago, but
got this “dependency” error. I am wondering how come you
got no problem.

Earlier versions of the package installer did not check the
shared object dependencies. It is possible I installed phinx
with one of those, so the issue never came up. Just a timing
issue with beta vs. final code is my guess.

Cheers,
Andrew

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Andrew Thomas wrote:

Wenge wrote:
Jerry Chappell wrote:

I don’t have a good answer for you. But I have tried to install that
package and had the same problem. It’s a very old package, which is not
very well composed. On the screen showing the unsatisfied dependencies,
it’s possible to hit the install button anyway, but the packages will be
installed as inactive, and they probably wouldn’t work anyway.

Someone else will have to tell you where to find a good Phinx package,
including XPhoton.

Jerry Chappell


Thanx anyway, Jerry…

…Hey QNX boys! … some hints ??

Thanks in advance!

Here’s how it’s done…

Create a directory - I named mine /usr/X11R6.6.1/lib
and put the following libraries and directories from a 6.1
installation into it:

X11/ libX11.so.6 libXmu.so.6 liboldX.so.6
lib/ libXIE.so.6 libXp.so. libsocket.so.1
libICE.so.6 libXaw.so.6 libXpm.so.4
libMrm.so.1 libXext.so.6 libXt.so.6
libPEX5.so.6 libXi.so.6 libXtst.so.6
libSM.so.6 libXm.so.1 libc.so.1

I have made no effort to determine how many of these libraries
are actually necessary. Notice that libsocket.so.1 and libc.so.1
both came from /lib, not from /usr/X11R6/lib.

Copy the file /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.1 from a 6.1 installation into
the /usr/lib directory.

Install the phinx package. When it takes you to the “missing
dependencies” screen, click the install button quickly to go
on and install the package in disabled mode.

Edit the file: /etc/system/package/packages
and add the line

QPF:item>qnx/phinx/core-1.0</QPF:item

above the existing line

QPF:subitem>qnx/phinx/core-1.0/x86</QPF:subitem

Start the odl package manager and use the file menu item
“Restart the package filesystem”.

Create a shell alias or a shell script (I named mine “phx”)
like this:

alias phx=‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6.6.1/lib /usr/photon/bin/phinx
-geometry 1020x744+0+0’

Now to run phinx, use the phx alias.

Cheers,
Andrew
phinx work with libraries from Xfree-4.2 included with qnx 6.2.

The only problems I have is that the keyboard don’t work remotely.
Mathieu

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Mathieu Chouinard wrote:

phinx work with libraries from Xfree-4.2 included with qnx 6.2.
The only problems I have is that the keyboard don’t work remotely.
Mathieu

Is your NumLock on or off?

I cannot use the entire keyboard into phinix from a Linux X server if
NumLok is On.
With NumLok off it’s all OK.

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there is a phinx for qnx4.
call qssl sales. you have to pay for it.
frank

Wenge <nonhol@aperama.rti> wrote:

By the way…

I know this is not the right NG but: something similar to phinx, but for
QNX 4 ?

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By the way…

I know this is not the right NG but: something similar to phinx, but for
QNX 4 ?

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  • Davide Ancri - Prisma Engineering
  • email = davidea AT prisma DASH eng DOT it
    ------------------------------------------------------------/
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Frank Liu wrote:

there is a phinx for qnx4.
call qssl sales. you have to pay for it.
frank

Wenge <> nonhol@aperama.rti> > wrote:

By the way…


I know this is not the right NG but: something similar to phinx, but for
QNX 4 ?


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  • Davide Ancri - Prisma Engineering
  • email = davidea AT prisma DASH eng DOT it
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    I got phinx from > http://betas.qnx.com/phinx/

and when I try to install it on qnx 6.2.1 it does not work
when I invoke the command bellow
qnxinstall -r /root/PHINX -f no-find-web

the drectory PHINX contains all the stuff extracted from
http://betas.qnx.com/phinx/:
content.tgz phinx-1.0-qnx.qpk releasenotes
HowToInstall.txt phinx-1.0-qnx.qpm repository.qrm
HowToInstall.txt~ phinx-1.0-x86-qnx.qpk
license.txt phinx-1.0-x86-qnx.qpm

The package seems to be installed but none phinx binary is
installed anywhere and not on the expected location /usr/photon/bin/phinx

This problem could be related to the package manager pf 6.2.1.
Try to install phinx on 6.1 and then copy the binary to 6.2.1 platform
could be the solution. what do you think about that ?

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my problem is to load phx
as I explained. Impossible either on 6.1 ior 6.2 qnx
to download and get the binary phx. If you have it
I’d appreciate to get it without the package manager
and copy as we do on slackware.