Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtk+-1.0.5-2 (RPM), gtk+-1.1.1, & gpgp-0.2

[Some Guy <guy mikepery pr mcs net>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, D. Emilio Grimaldo Tunon wrote:

> Ray Marshall wrote:
> 
> > I just checked, and according to RPM, 23 products require both libgdk.so.1
> > and libgtk.so.1, provided by the gtk+-1.0.5-2 RPM file.  Most of them are
> 
> Unfortunately these RPM files as delivered, usually don't support
> to be rooted somewhere else like /opt so that one can have two
> versions of the libraries.

A quick fix I used was to rename /usr to /usr-bak (or something similar),
link /opt to /usr (ln -s /opt /usr), install the RPM, remove the link, and
rename /usr-bak to /usr.

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