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i have just reinstalled my system 64 bit cauldron and i need bzip 2 libs to install
folding at home. where can i find them ?

thanks

Hello,
bzip2 and lib64bzip2 are installed by default, you have nothing to do.

Lebarhon wrote:Hello,
bzip2 and lib64bzip2 are installed by default, you have nothing to do.

i looked in mageia control center and the two pieces of software have a read
mark beside them. i believe this tells me that they cannot be installed.

i meant to say red mark beside them.

The red mark is for "restricted" packages required by the base system, those are installed and cannot be removed.

Can you show what the actual problem with the folging@home installation is?

doktor5000 wrote:The red mark is for "restricted" packages required by the base system, those are installed and cannot be removed.

Can you show what the actual problem with the folging@home installation is?

i download the folding file in its own place i call folding.

when i attampt to install it , a message appears telling me i need bz2 files. thats it.

While some packages may have been installed, there were failures.
Some requested packages cannot be installed:
fahclient-7.3.6-1.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied bzip2-libs)

patrickdarcy wrote:While some packages may have been installed, there were failures.
Some requested packages cannot be installed:
fahclient-7.3.6-1.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied bzip2-libs)

If you would have posted that in the first place, that would have saved us quite some time.

Those depdendencies in the rpm are for another distribution, as we don't have any package "bzip2-libs" it will never be satisfied.
It's the same with e.g. skype or teamviewer.

You need to install it with

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urpmi --allow-nodeps --allow-force ./fahclient-7.3.6-1.x86_64.rpm

in the folder where you extracted it.

i had to go back to a slightly older piece of software to get it to work.

it was a zip file. i unpacked it chmod'd it and got it running.

this is the first time i have seeen an rpm at folding. anywqay all is well that
ends well. thanks for the suggestions.

To mark a thread solved, you have to edit the title of the first post - otherwise the overall topic doesn't change.
I've done that, and changed it to a more meaningful subject, so other people with a similar problem are able to find it