CentOS 6 / 8 & Rocky 9 installation errors / notes

[jnewman67]

during the ./configure on a Centos 8 server, there were some dependencies that were missing, but the output messages from the ./configure were inconsistant

good: bzip2 was installed, but bzip2-devel was missing, and it gave this helpful message:
(you may also have to install bzip2-devel)

good: lzo was installed, but liblzo was missing, and it gave this helpful message:
(you may also have to install lzo-devel)

not good: lz4 was installed, but lz4-devel was missing, yet it didn't mention I should install the "-devel" package (I tried installing the lz4-devel package, and it resolved the error) - issuing a message similar to the first 2 "good" responses would be better

not good: libgcrypt was installed, but libgcrypt-devel was missing, yet it didn't mention I should install the "-devel" package (I tried installing the libgcrypt-devel package, and it resolved the error) - issuing a message similar to the first 2 "good" responses would be better

not good: e2fsprogs was installed (for ext2fs support), but e2fsprogs-devel was missing, yet it didn't mention I should install the "-devel" package (I tried installing the e2fsprogs-devel package, and it resolved the error) - issuing a message similar to the first 2 "good" responses would be better

not good: Package 'blkid', required by 'virtual:world', not found - this one could use a MUCH better solution message - the util-linux package is already install (which is where the blkid command comes from), but it uses the libblkid package, and THAT needs the "-devel" package installed to resolve the error - - issuing a message similar to the first 2 "good" responses would be better

after resolving all those errors, it finished the configure correctly

the "make" and "make install" appear to have run successfully after those were resolved, as the binary was found using "which" and the man page existed.

now for the testing :) Thanks!

[jnewman67]

similar to my CentOS 8 installation experience, I found similar issues installing it on CentOS 6

complained about libbz2 not being installed - bzip2-devel needed to be installed

complained about liblzma not being installed - xz-devel needed to be installed

complained about liblzo2 not being installed - lzo-devel needed to be installed

complained about lz4 library not being installed - lz4-devel needed to be installed

complained about zstd not being installed - libzstd-devel needed to be installed

complained about libgcrypt not being installed - libgcrypt-devel needed to be installed

complained about ext2fs not being installed - e2fsprogs-devel needed to be installed

complained about blkid not being installed - libblkid-devel needed to be installed

the make and make install both worked, man page and binary found afterwards - testing time :)

i'm just documenting this for others that might not find the correlating packages to install based on what it complains is missing

[jnewman67]

for my RockyLinux 9.3 installation, I found similar issues installing it

( I had already preinstalled "bzip2-devel e2fsprogs-devel libblkid-devel libgcrypt-devel lz4-devel lzo-devel xz-devel libzstd-devel" just in case they were already missing)

complained about uuid not being installed - libuuid-devel needed to be installed

the make and make install both worked, man page and binary found afterward