Re: Trying to install GNOME

[Peter Wainwright <prw wainpr demon co uk>]

Woops, following up myself...
On closer reading I see you do have libc6 on the system, but for some reason
the RPM database doesn't seem to know about it. Is it an older system that
was upgraded by installing tarballs rather than RPMS? On my system I
have both versions of libc provided as follows:

bash$ rpm -q --whatprovides libc.so.6
glibc-2.1.2-11                          <---- this is the RPM you want
bash$ rpm -q --whatprovides libc.so.5
libc-5.3.12-31


On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:30:55 Peter Wainwright wrote:
> libc.so is required by almost every linux program. I can only assume that
> you're using a pretty old version of (Red Hat?) linux - do you have a file
> /lib/libc.so.5 instead?
> 
> Are there GNOME RPMS available for libc5 systems anyone?
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:11:16 Tim Swetonic wrote:
> > Hi, I'm a newbie desperately trying to forget about Micro$oft Windoze. When
> > I try to install the GNOME rpm packages, most of them require libc.so.6. I
> > have a libc.so.6 in /usr/lib and in /lib. What do I need to do to get
> > libc.so.6 "installed?"
> > 
> > I can provide some RPM listings if that will help. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Tim
> 
> 
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