[SOLVED]Atom editor intall error nothing provides gtk3

[justjack]

I'm trying to install Atom from the rpm I downloaded from https://atom.io/ and am having issues. When double clicking the rpm and entering root password I get an error that libcurl.so()64bit and libcurl.so.4()64bit are missing. Trying to research, I then tried from a terminal, changing to the directory the rpm is in and su to root. That didn't work, so I looked back at the atom site and tried with the -y option (not sure what that does, another thing I need to learn!). I haven't tried the skip-broken option as it sounds like it would not help. I looked for gtk3 with software management with no luck.
Below is the command I used and the results. Any help is greatly appreciated. While I've used Linux for years, I've never gotten in the depths of things, so feel free to over explain, if you like.

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[root@localhost Downloads]# dnf install atom.x86_64.rpm
determining the fastest mirror (10 hosts).. done.B/s |   0  B     --:-- ETA
Mageia 8 - x86_64                           194 kB/s |  32 MB     02:50   
determining the fastest mirror (9 hosts).. done. B/s |   0  B     --:-- ETA
Mageia 8 - x86_64 - Updates                 188 kB/s |  60 MB     05:28   
vivaldi                                      20 kB/s |  16 kB     00:00   
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides gtk3 needed by atom-1.60.0-0.1.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[color=#FF0000]Tried with the -y option too.[/color]
[root@localhost Downloads]# dnf install -y atom.x86_64.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:18 ago on Mon 06 Jun 2022 08:39:48 AM PDT.
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides gtk3 needed by atom-1.60.0-0.1.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)


[sturmvogel]

We have lib64gtk+3_0-3.24.24-1.mga8.x86_64.rpm in our repos. You could try with that…

[doktor5000]

Hi there, you'd need to install that with urpmi --allow-nodeps after downloading atom with dnf or feeding the complete URL to urpmi.

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dnf download atom
urpmi --allow-nodeps atom.x86_64.rpm

[justjack]

Thanks doktor5000 and sturmvogel. Manage to get it install by using the urpmi command twice, First to get the dependencies, then to install it, but needed to not check dependencies for the gtk3 error. Seems to be up and running now.

Thanks again for the prompt help.

[morgano]

Welcome Jack

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A tip about foreign software types: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Ways_to_install_programs