Install GreenPAK Designer RPM - fedora

I am attempting to install closed source software from Silego, GreenPAK Designer, on a machine running Fedora 19. The supported installation packages on Silego's Website only target Ubuntu and Debian. I downloaded the .deb package and used Alien to convert to an RPM. So far so good, but a dry run of yum install showed dependency errors, which I solved by installing the necessary packages with yum:
qt5-qbase
qt5-qbase-gui
qt5-qtdeclarative
qt5-qtlocation
qwt
Now, yum installed the above libraries in /usr/lib/ but the GreenPAK RPM defaults to /usr/local/bin as the output dir. I figured I could run
sudo yum localinstall --nodeps --noscripts greenpak-designer-x.x.x.rpm
and get a successful install but I received conflict errors relating to dirs such as '/', '/usr', '/usr/bin' etc. I worked around this issue with:
rpmrebuild -pe --notest-install --replacefiles --noscripts greenpak-designer.x.x.x.rpm
and removing the offending lines in the script. It allowed me to install rpm but the software is broken because of dependency issues (not surprisingly). From the system log:
Jan 4 16:06:49 pelican gnome-session[1729]: /usr/local/greenpak-designer/bin/GP5: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The machine has a /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.50
One thing I did not try is rebuilding my shared object cache with ldconfig, which sometimes solves problems with missing .so links when building from source but I don't see how that would apply in this instance (I'm not trying to link object files to libraries, rather simply trying to drop binaries in default install locations, no?)
Of course, I contacted the vendor and begged for an RPM. The contact was helpful but informed me the software folks are on a well deserved break. I thought I'd continue puttering with this in the meantime while I have time.
Any ideas? It seems the solution to this problem would be helpful when trying to install almost any closed source software targeting Debian on a Fedora box.

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sudo rpm -ivh mysql-community-package-name.rpm
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How to install Mysql-server in Ubuntu offline

I need to install Mysql-server in an Ubuntu 18 machine which do not have any internet access. There are plethora of instruction material exist on this this subject but all they require Ubuntu machine to be online.
One such documentation can be available here (quite comprehensive though)
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-18-04
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I suggest you follow this guide on how to use apt-offline. https://linoxide.com/debian/install-debian-packages-offline/
As a general guide:
You start by having apt-offline installed on both PCs, this is done by default on the desktop releases, but can easily be installed by just downloading the .deb package for your release from the packages.ubuntu.com website: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/apt-offline/download
Then create a signature that can be put onto another PC that'll do the downloading/fetching updates and make a note that we also need mysql-server
apt-offline set offline-servers-state.sig --install-packages mysql-server
You can then use this signature on a PC connected to the internet using the same tool to check for updates and/or download the required files into a zip file
apt-offline get --bundle zip/file/location/bundle.zip offline-servers-state.sig
Once downloaded you can put this .zip back on the offline server to install the packages
apt-offline install zip/file/location/bundle.zip
You can visit https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ from a computer that can go online.
Then, select your OS and version
Download DEB Bundle on a computer that can go online. Move the downloaded file internally to your system that cannot hit the Internet.
Your downloaded file will be a .tar. Use command tar -xvf filename.tar (See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tar-extract-linux/ for command).
You will get a new directory. cd that-directory will get you in that directory. You will see a bunch of .deb files.
Install the deb files one by one using sudo apt-get install filename.deb depending on what you want to install. Other commands to install deb files can be found in this discussion https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159094/how-to-install-a-deb-file-by-dpkg-i-or-by-apt.

Compiling MySQL 5.7.20 in CentOS 7 Issues (A Lot)

I am trying to setup a MySQL server using CentOS (No GUI) and I need to switch to OpenSSL instead of YaSSL in order to have access to the encryption tools.
The issues happen when runing the cmake. At first I got the error that cmake was not able to find boost, I fixed this adding the parameter -DWITH_BOOST.
The cmake line is as follows.
cmake . -DWITH_READLINE=ON -DWITH_SSL=system -DWITH_BOOST=/usr/local/src/mysql-5.7.20/boost/
After the adjustment I ran again the CMAKE the I got several errors.
SSL Error, cmake can not find the OpenSSL files. I checked if the library was installed, I also downloaded the tar.gz file and decompress it and pointed the cmake to the folder, none of this worked.
Can not find NUMA libraries, again I checked and it is installed, at this point I ran the system update to check for everything but this did not solve the issue.
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I been looking around, trying to figure out all this issues, I've been joining information from different websites but still not able to figure out this.
Thanks ahead to everyone for the help.
You're facing the dependencies hell with MySQL. If you don't really need to compile from the sources, you still can install with the RPM which is much easier. The RPM method is described here : https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-yum-repo-quick-guide/en/
As you're asking a ready-to-go install from the sources, this is what I just did and it worked, on a fresh CentOS 7.4 minimal, 2 vcpus 3Gb :
yum group install -y 'Development Tools'
yum install -y cmake ncurses-devel curl
curl -Ovk https://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-5.7/mysql-5.7.20.tar.gz
tar zxf mysql-5.7.20.tar.gz
cd mysql-5.7.20
cmake . -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=1 -DWITH_BOOST=$HOME/boost -DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=1
make -j2
make install
After that you need to configure it, add the startup scripts, and of course secure it. Here are some additional docs :
http://howtolamp.com/lamp/mysql/5.6/installing/
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-secure-installation.html
Perhaps try make clean; cmake clean; ldconfig then run your cmake command. Sometimes the system can't find the shared libraries, and ldconfig refreshes the library search path. This helped once when I was compiling something (emscripten?) which required a lot of libraries which I was installing as compilation errors arose.
The make clean; cmake clean will ensure that the compiler isn't looking at the old library search path when you recompile.

"Yum Update" reinstalling removed packages

On my Fedora 19 system, yum update attempts to reinstall a large number packages I have previously removed. This should not happen, as the packages listed are not installed and should not be suggested by yum. How can I make yum work in the expected manner - with updates suggesting only upgrades to preinstalled packages.
Background: I have been trying out new DEs - installing and removing them as I go. Currently, I'm in a DE-less state, booting directly into a tty terminal. My system has no (or a few hidden) xfce or cinnamon packages to "upgrade", yet the package manager is suggesting 300 packages to install, totaling 600M of new install.
Terminal output gist:
https://gist.github.com/Redoubts/29400f0b98cd13120a6a#file-gistfile1-txt
Short answer - It's not possible to disallow installing any packages from the depenency chain. Either you install all of them or drop those who depends on unwanted packages.
In some cases, when the package from a dependency chain is required only during some specific stages of installation (say for execution of a pre- or post-install scripts), it's possible to remove thise package later, after the complete installation. But that's not what you want I suppose.

Getting Google repositories to work with apt-get on Ubuntu Hardy

I've installed Google Chrome on Hardy via the .deb file and would like to configure apt-get for automatic updates.
[I have another machine running Ubuntu Karmic where this works fine; apt-get knows the package as 'google-chrome'; I'm now using a Dell Mini 10 with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installed]
As part of the .deb install, two entries have been added to the third- party software sources tab:
http://dl.google.com/linux/deb stable main
http://dl.google.com/linux/deb stable non-free main
However if I check for updates with either of these clicked, I get the following error:
Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry main/binary-lpia/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
There is a thread here which indicates others have had the same problem:
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=097d103f87b49abe&hl=en
This references a further thread:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38608
which suggests the problem has been fixed.
Despite this I remain unable to get it to work, and none of the suggested workarounds seem to work either.
Ideas ? Thanks.
I think the issue here is that the Ubuntu installaion on your Dell Mini uses LPIA (Low Power Intel Architecture) and the Google Software Repository doesn't provide the "google-chrome" package for this architecture. Hence apt-get is giving you an error. You will have to do the updates manually using the "google-chrome" package for the i386 architecture.
On another note, the following thread provides details about repackaging an i386 package for LPIA. I hope this helps.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962835