RE: Problem getting dia installed

[MMark <mmark psysolutions com>]

> You will need to install the devel package from the same place you installed
> this package (Ximian??). 

did this today, still not working.

> RH7.2 comes with libxml-1.8.14-2 and libxml-devel-1.8.14-2 which are too
> old. If you downloaded libxml-1.8.15-ximian.2, try downloading the
> libxml-devel-1.8.15-ximian.2 from
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml-devel
>
> Or, you can use libxml2 which you will need both the package and the
> development package. The general rule is if you require a package to run an
> application then you will need the development package to compile it.
i also have libxml2 and the devel. package. the make is still crashing
in the same place saying that /usr/lib/libxml.so does not exist. which
it does.

any other suggestions?

thanks for all suggestions so far.

-russ