Re: Newbee: Installing Enlightenment

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Karl Krasnowsky wrote:

> System: i686 running Caldera 2.3 distro with KDE

> After comparing KDE at home and gnome at work I've decided that I prefer
> gnome and went about trying to install it on my home system. Downloaded
> the gnome rpms and installed but upon starting a gnome-session I got a
> message indicating that I required enlightenment to adequately run
> gnome.

Erk, well this isn't really an actual requirement. You just need some
window manager installed (E being a past recommendation).

> Fine. Grabbed the enlightenment 16.2 package as well as all of the
> dependency packages I could identify, but I still have a few outstanding
> unsatisfied dependencies that I was hoping someone could help me locate:
> 1) libm.so.6(GLIB_2.1)
> 2) libc.so.6(GLIB_2.1)
> 3) libc.so.6(GLIB_2.0)
> 4) libdl.so.2(GLIB_2.1)
> 5) libdl.so.2(GLIB_2.0)
> 
> The above syntax is the format given to me via the Kpackage utility. Are
> these items found in one package? Why would it indicate same named files
> but with two different GLIB references? 

(These are symbol version tags.) It wants glibc 2.1.x, and you only have
2.0.x installed. I think Caldera 2.3 probably only has glibc 2.0.x.

If you have a GNOME-compatible window manager installed (the list
currently includes "sawmill enlightenment icewm wmaker") then you should
be able to ignore the enlightenment dependency in gnome-core. You can
instead try to find an Enlightenment package for Caldera 2.3 - one may
come with the distribution, or there might be one on the E site.

-- Elliot
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.