Bug 1644735 - ntop requires unfulfillable libgdbm.so
Summary: ntop requires unfulfillable libgdbm.so
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ntop
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-10-31 14:04 UTC by J. Randall Owens
Modified: 2019-11-27 21:59 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-11-27 21:59:43 UTC
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Description J. Randall Owens 2018-10-31 14:04:59 UTC
Description of problem:
ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28 (still in F29 release, presumably because of FTBFS #1605260) requires libgdbm.so.4(), but in F29, gdbm-libs-1.18-1.fc29 provides libgdbm.so.6() & libgdbm_compat.so.4(), while compat-gdbm-libs-1.14.1-7.fc29 provides libgdbm.so.5().
In F28, they were libgdbm.so.5() & libgdbm_compat.so.4(), and libgdbm.so.4(), so it wasn't a problem. Now, it is.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28

Additional info:
Since this is currently FTBFS & looks likely to be orphaned, I suppose there's a fair chance I'll have to either write this one off, or adopt it. Then I'd have to figure out how to point it at one of the extant versions....

Meanwhile, it's blocking my F29 upgrade, because
 Problem 4: problem with installed package ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28.x86_64
  - package ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28.x86_64 requires libgdbm.so.4()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - compat-gdbm-1.14-5.fc28.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository

Comment 1 Joachim Jaeckel 2018-11-14 00:55:38 UTC
In F29 yum install ntop fails whith
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libgdbm.so.4()(64bit) needed by ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28.x86_64
  - nothing provides libnetsnmp.so.30()(64bit) needed by ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28.x86_64

Comment 2 Yura 2018-11-15 20:20:19 UTC
Actually it's evidently but just to show that meet the same problem. I've tried to install ntop on freshly installed F29 and sure got the same broken deps.

Comment 3 gobbledegeek 2019-01-22 16:25:39 UTC
Is anyone looking at this? Please consider this important - users who use ntop are not the typical end-user imho.

Thanks!

Comment 4 rh1 2019-04-01 02:46:22 UTC
Starting a fresh Fedora 29 install via anaconda's GUI, 
selecting "KDE Plasma Workspaces" with the "Security Lab" add-on (and no other selections), 
and the default mirror setting ("Closest mirror"):
Anaconda throws "Error checking software dependencies" with the above-noted dependency issue.

Comment 5 Eduard Vopicka 2019-04-18 05:33:54 UTC
Enabling testing repos does not help, so it is not the matter of unpushed updates. Please consider to take a look at this, it is sometimes hard to live w/o ntop.

[root@localhost ~]# dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular --enablerepo=updates-testing install ntop
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:47 ago on Thu 18 Apr 2019 07:30:31 CEST.
Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libgdbm.so.4 needed by ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28.i686
  - nothing provides libnetsnmp.so.30 needed by ntop-5.0.1-15.fc28.i686
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[root@localhost ~]#

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 19:36:04 UTC
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