On 10/11/2012 at 9:38 PM, "Shaka Nkofo" <shakaplus.data@gmail.com> wrote:

An attempt to install GNS3 failed with the output below. Im not sure why or what to do next. Has anyone else faced the same issue and got past it? Please share your solution. If not can a more savy user take a look at the output and point me in the right direction?

Cheers

Shaka

[shaka@raptor ~]$ sudo packer -S gns3

Aur Targets (3): dynamips-community dynagen gns3

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y Edit dynamips-community PKGBUILD with $EDITOR? [Y/n]

==> Making package: dynamips-community 0.2.8RC3-1 (Thu Oct 11 17:43:03 CEST 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Found dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz ==> Validating source files with sha1sums... dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Extracting Sources... -> Extracting dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Removing existing pkg/ directory... ==> Starting build()... make -C stable make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/packerbuild-0/dynamips-community/dynamips- community/src/dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community/stable' Linking rom2c cc: error: /usr/lib/libelf.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [rom2c] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/packerbuild-0/dynamips-community/dynamips- community/src/dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community/stable' make: *** [dynamips.stable] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... The build failed. Edit dynagen PKGBUILD with $EDITOR? [Y/n]

==> Making package: dynagen 0.11.0-3 (Thu Oct 11 17:52:39 CEST 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Missing Dependencies: -> dynamips-community ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies. The build failed. Dependencies for `gns3' are not met, not building..

This sounds like you're missing a dependency (at least) for building. Try installing elfutils from the extra-repository. Appears to be missing as a dependency in the PKGBUILD. mfg narve