On 04/27/2011 12:08 PM, davidmanas wrote: > I am trying to download Modeller to an Intel core i7 system for use with > multiple CPUs. > I am using the command suggested at the installation website: "rpm -Uvh > modeller-9.9-1.x86_64.rpm". > Then I get the following: > =========================== > rpm: RPM should not be used directly install RPM packages, use Alien > instead!
This suggests that you are using a Debian-based system, such as Ubuntu (Alien is a package which tries to convert RPM packages into Debian packages). I suggest you use the Debian package (on the Modeller download page) instead.
> glib2 >= 2.2.0 is needed by modeller-9.9-1.ia64
I see two problems here:
1. It looks like you have downloaded the IA64 Modeller package. This is for IA64 (Itanium) systems. That's not what you want for an i7 - you want the x86_64 package.
2. RPM assumes that every *other* package on your system was also installed by RPM. Since your system looks like it is Debian-based, this won't be the case, and so RPM won't be able to find any of the dependencies in its database. Use the Debian package instead.
Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker