On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:08:04PM -0400, Christopher Linn wrote:
> i am installaing amanda on a RHEL4 workstation.  when using 
> amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm from the zmanda site,
> it fails with:
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         tar >= 1.15 is needed by amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386
> 
> yet when i have searched for a tar >= 1.15 rpm i have only found rpms 
> for RHEL4 going up through tar-1.14-9.RHEL4.src.rpm (this on rpmfind).
> >= 1.15 rpms are only available for SuSE, Mandriva, Fedora and Mandrake.
> 
> is it possible to use an rpm from one of these other distros?  what do 
> other folks do about this?

You could always grab the tar .src.rpm from Rawhide or Fedora Core 5
and rebuild it on your RHEL-4 box.  Or you could grab the amanda
.src.rpm, rewrite the tar dependency, and rebuild it.  That's probably
what I would do.

It sounds to me like a packaging error that the rpm doesn't work with
a version of tar that comes with the OS and is known to have been
patched to work with Amanda.  But what do I know about packaging? :-)

                        -- JF