rpmbuild

[Timothy Murphy]

I'm trying to compile Canon's Linux driver for my Canon MG5550 printer,
and the instructions tell me to run "rpmbuild".
When I consult https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
(dated 23 May 2016)
I'm told to dnf-install fedora-packager, but this brings up
[root@william tim]# dnf install fedora-packager
Error: package fedora-packager-0.5.10.7-1.fc24.noarch requires mock, 
  but none of the providers can be installed
and similarly
[root@william tim]# dnf install mock
Error: package mock-1.2.17-1.fc24.noarch requires systemd-container,
  but none of the providers can be installed

Is this because I am running Fedora-24 beta?
Must I wait for 3 days?
(Oh dear, I see it has been postponed until June 14.)

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/04/16 20:43, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to compile Canon's Linux driver for my Canon MG5550 printer,
> and the instructions tell me to run "rpmbuild".
> When I consult https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
> (dated 23 May 2016)
> I'm told to dnf-install fedora-packager, but this brings up
> [root@william tim]# dnf install fedora-packager
> Error: package fedora-packager-0.5.10.7-1.fc24.noarch requires mock, 
>   but none of the providers can be installed
> and similarly
> [root@william tim]# dnf install mock
> Error: package mock-1.2.17-1.fc24.noarch requires systemd-container,
>   but none of the providers can be installed
>
> Is this because I am running Fedora-24 beta?
> Must I wait for 3 days?
> (Oh dear, I see it has been postponed until June 14.)

Isn't it as simply as....

[egreshko@f24b ~]$ dnf whatprovides *bin/rpmbuild
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:33 ago on Sat Jun  4 21:50:19 2016.
rpm-build-4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc24.x86_64 : Scripts and executable programs used to
                                      : build packages

Followed by the install of "rpm-build"?

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/04/16 21:51, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/04/16 20:43, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile Canon's Linux driver for my Canon MG5550 printer,
> > and the instructions tell me to run "rpmbuild".
> > When I consult https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
> > (dated 23 May 2016)
> > I'm told to dnf-install fedora-packager, but this brings up
> > [root@william tim]# dnf install fedora-packager
> > Error: package fedora-packager-0.5.10.7-1.fc24.noarch requires mock, 
> >   but none of the providers can be installed
> > and similarly
> > [root@william tim]# dnf install mock
> > Error: package mock-1.2.17-1.fc24.noarch requires systemd-container,
> >   but none of the providers can be installed
> >
> > Is this because I am running Fedora-24 beta?
> > Must I wait for 3 days?
> > (Oh dear, I see it has been postponed until June 14.)
>
> Isn't it as simply as....
>
> [egreshko@f24b ~]$ dnf whatprovides *bin/rpmbuild
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:33 ago on Sat Jun  4 21:50:19 2016.
> rpm-build-4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc24.x86_64 : Scripts and executable programs used to
>                                       : build packages
>
> Followed by the install of "rpm-build"?

Oh, you would probably want to install rpmdevtools and then run the rpmdev-setuptree
script that creates a build environment in your home directory.

[Timothy Murphy]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile Canon's Linux driver for my Canon MG5550 printer,
> > and the instructions tell me to run "rpmbuild".
> Isn't it as simply as....
>
> [egreshko@f24b ~]$ dnf whatprovides *bin/rpmbuild
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:33 ago on Sat Jun  4 21:50:19 2016.
> rpm-build-4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc24.x86_64 : Scripts and executable programs
> used to
>                                       : build packages
>
> Followed by the install of "rpm-build"?

Thank you, Ed.
You are (as usual) quite right.
I think all that was required to get the program rpmbuild
was to dnf-install rpm-build.

Sadly, even with this in place, I cannot compile Canon's official driver,
which is enormous.
The 2000-line process log ends with
  **Error**: You must have `glib' installed.
  You can get it from: ftp//ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
In fact glib (and glib-devel) are installed -
I assume glib is not in the expected place.

I shall continue to look for a way to compile the Canon program.
Meanwhile I have to re-boot into Windows to use this printer.

[John Pilkington]

On 05/06/16 10:14, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > I'm trying to compile Canon's Linux driver for my Canon MG5550 printer,
> > > and the instructions tell me to run "rpmbuild".
> > Isn't it as simply as....
> >
> > [egreshko@f24b ~]$ dnf whatprovides *bin/rpmbuild
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:33 ago on Sat Jun  4 21:50:19 2016.
> > rpm-build-4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc24.x86_64 : Scripts and executable programs
> > used to
> >                                        : build packages
> >
> > Followed by the install of "rpm-build"?
>
> Thank you, Ed.
> You are (as usual) quite right.
> I think all that was required to get the program rpmbuild
> was to dnf-install rpm-build.
>
> Sadly, even with this in place, I cannot compile Canon's official driver,
> which is enormous.
> The 2000-line process log ends with
>    **Error**: You must have `glib' installed.
>    You can get it from: ftp//ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
> In fact glib (and glib-devel) are installed -
> I assume glib is not in the expected place.
>
> I shall continue to look for a way to compile the Canon program.
> Meanwhile I have to re-boot into Windows to use this printer.

You don't say why you need to compile;  I have an MG4250 scanner/printer 
which works for me in SL7 with cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm

There appear to be two similar sets of *.rpm.tar.gz packages (v2.20 and 
v4.00) for the mg5500 series here:

http://www.canonprinter-drivers.com/2016/04/canon-pixma-mg5500-drivers-downl...

HTH

John P

[Kevin Cummings]

On 06/05/16 06:06, John Pilkington wrote:
> You don't say why you need to compile;  I have an MG4250 scanner/printer
> which works for me in SL7 with cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm
>
> There appear to be two similar sets of *.rpm.tar.gz packages (v2.20 and
> v4.00) for the mg5500 series here:
>
> http://www.canonprinter-drivers.com/2016/04/canon-pixma-mg5500-drivers-downl...

I must concur with John.  Last December I installed
cnijfilter-mg5500series and cnijfilter-common, and I was able to print
to a wireless MG5520 a friend had just purchased.  I played a lot that
day trying to get it to work (wirelessly and on USB cable).  I initially
tried letting CUPS do the work, and that didn't quite work.  But
following the instructions on the Canon site got me to these two RPMs,
and things worked quite nicely after installing them.  Nothing to build
locally.  (Sorry, I can't remember where I got them from.  "yum list all
cnijfilter*"  won't tell me anything other than installed, therefore I
probably got them directly from Canon.)

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/06/16 03:13, Kevin Cummings wrote:
> On 06/05/16 06:06, John Pilkington wrote:
> > You don't say why you need to compile;  I have an MG4250 scanner/printer
> > which works for me in SL7 with cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm
> >
> > There appear to be two similar sets of *.rpm.tar.gz packages (v2.20 and
> > v4.00) for the mg5500 series here:
> >
> > http://www.canonprinter-drivers.com/2016/04/canon-pixma-mg5500-drivers-downl...
>
> I must concur with John.  Last December I installed
> cnijfilter-mg5500series and cnijfilter-common, and I was able to print
> to a wireless MG5520 a friend had just purchased.  I played a lot that
> day trying to get it to work (wirelessly and on USB cable).  I initially
> tried letting CUPS do the work, and that didn't quite work.  But
> following the instructions on the Canon site got me to these two RPMs,
> and things worked quite nicely after installing them.  Nothing to build
> locally.  (Sorry, I can't remember where I got them from.  "yum list all
> cnijfilter*"  won't tell me anything other than installed, therefore I
> probably got them directly from Canon.)

You probably got the rpm from here....

http://support-th.canon-asia.com/contents/TH/EN/0100466702.html    or similar Canon site.

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 05 June 2016, Kevin Cummings sent:
> (Sorry, I can't remember where I got them from.  "yum list all
> cnijfilter*"  won't tell me anything other than installed, therefore
> I probably got them directly from Canon.)

If you installed and RPM without using YUM, you ought to be able to:
  rpm -qa cnijfilter*

Is there anything that trawls through non-user file (i.e. system and
applications), that could single out files that weren't installed via
RPM, YUM, DNF, etc?

A comparison between yum database and locate database?

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/04/16 20:43, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> [root@william tim]# dnf install mock
> Error: package mock-1.2.17-1.fc24.noarch requires systemd-container,
>   but none of the providers can be installed
>
> Is this because I am running Fedora-24 beta?

And, FWIW, on my fully updated F24 beta system (KDE desktop) I get....

[egreshko@f24b ~]$ sudo dnf install mock
[sudo] password for egreshko:
Last metadata expiration check: 1:00:43 ago on Sat Jun  4 22:02:47 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
====================================================================================
 Package                  Arch        Version                     Repository   Size
====================================================================================
Installing:
 libmicrohttpd            x86_64      0.9.46-2.fc24               fedora       66 k
 mock                     noarch      1.2.17-1.fc24               fedora      310 k
 pygpgme                  x86_64      0.3-15.fc24                 fedora       77 k
 pyliblzma                x86_64      0.5.3-15.fc24               fedora       53 k
 python-kitchen           noarch      1.2.4-2.fc24                fedora      121 k
 python-pycurl            x86_64      7.43.0-2.fc24               fedora      204 k
 python-urlgrabber        noarch      3.10.1-8.fc24               fedora      112 k
 python2-iniparse         noarch      0.4-19.fc24                 fedora       45 k
 pyxattr                  x86_64      0.5.3-7.fc24                fedora       33 k
 rpm-python               x86_64      4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc24        fedora      102 k
 systemd-container        x86_64      229-8.fc24                  fedora      997 k
 yum                      noarch      3.4.3-509.fc24              fedora      1.2 M
 yum-metadata-parser      x86_64      1.1.4-16.fc24               fedora       39 k
 yum-utils                noarch      1.1.31-509.fc24             fedora      117 k

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================
Install  14 Packages

Total download size: 3.5 M
Installed size: 13 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

[Ahmad Samir]

On 4 June 2016 at 14:43, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> I'm trying to compile Canon's Linux driver for my Canon MG5550 printer,
> and the instructions tell me to run "rpmbuild".
> When I consult <
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package%3E
> (dated 23 May 2016)
> I'm told to dnf-install fedora-packager, but this brings up
> [root@william tim]# dnf install fedora-packager
> Error: package fedora-packager-0.5.10.7-1.fc24.noarch requires mock,
>   but none of the providers can be installed
> and similarly
> [root@william tim]# dnf install mock
> Error: package mock-1.2.17-1.fc24.noarch requires systemd-container,
>   but none of the providers can be installed
>
> Is this because I am running Fedora-24 beta?
> Must I wait for 3 days?
> (Oh dear, I see it has been postponed until June 14.)

Use 'dnf --best install' this should hopefully provide more info about rpm
dependency problems.

--
Ahmad Samir