irods-icommands package missing dependencies on Almalinux 8

[alanking]

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• 4-3-stable

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Bug Report

iRODS Version, OS and Version

4.3.0, Almalinux 8

What did you try to do?

Install irods-icommands package on Almalinux 8 container:

$ history
    1  sudo rpm --import https://packages.irods.org/irods-signing-key.asc
    2  wget -qO - https://packages.irods.org/renci-irods.yum.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/renci-irods.yum.repo
    3  dnf update
    4  dnf install irods-icommands
    5  iinit
    6  history

Expected behavior

Once installed, I can run iinit to connect to and authenticate with a server somewhere.

Observed behavior (including steps to reproduce, if applicable)

$ iinit
iinit: error while loading shared libraries: libirods_client.so.4.3.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The client library was not installed alongside the iCommands package. Seems there's just a little gap in the packaging for this platform that needs to be filled in. This problem is not exhibited on Ubuntu 20.04.

[aghsmith]

I have found the same problem when installing on RHEL8. In this case, I manually installed the appropriate rpm by downloading it from the repo manually. Is there a recommended work around e.g. installing some other rpm with the requisite library?

[alanking]

I believe that manually installing the irods-runtime package is all that is required to work around this.

[aghsmith]

Thanks Alan, installing the irods-runtime package fixed the problem. In fact I'd also made an error in set up of the repo, and I was able to do the install in RHEL8 using yum and the repo without the need for a manual install.

[alanking]

@aghsmith Are you saying that you were able to get the irods-icommands from the RENCI repository to pull in the irods-runtime package as a dependency? Can you explain what you did? Maybe this issue can be closed because I missed something, too...?

[alanking]

@SwooshyCueb - I checked the boxes but wanted to confirm with you before closing. Please close if complete. Thanks!

[SwooshyCueb]

I could've sworn I already closed this issue, and now I'm afraid that I closed a different issue by mistake. Please be on the lookout for any issues or pull requests that I closed in the past hour or so that should still be open.