Re: Am I on the right path?

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

> Steve Jacobsen schrieb:

First of all: HTML mails are pure evil.

> When I ran the ./SETUP. I was informed that I needed ghostscript 6.01. I went
> to ghostscript.org and then rpmfind.net and found ghostscript 6.50 i386. I
> tried to install it but there were conflicts with ghostscript 5.50 that had
> been installed by default from the Linux 7.0 CDROM.

Linux 7.0 ?!? And I thought 2.4 was the current version...

Seriously: What do you mean? RedHat 7.0, SuSE 7.0, Mandrake 7.0, ...?

> I then tried to use the --replacefiles but then I showed that both 5.50
> and 6.50 were installed and

Ay caramba! When you want to upgrade an rpm package, you should use
rpm -U foobar.rpm (or first delete the old one with the --nodeps
option, the install the new one). "--replacefiles" will do you no good.

Right now it might be better to delete both packages (maybe using the
"--nodeps" and "--force" options) and re-install.

> then when I ran ./SETUP it told me that GLIBC_2.2 is not defined in file
> libc.so.6 with link time reference.

The new gs6.50 rpm seems to be compiled against glibc 2.2 (I think the
various 7.0 distributions still have 2.1.x installed).

You better check if there's an rpm suitable for your distribution version
and use that, or (if you're brave enough) get the gs source code and
compile one yourself.

Maybe it might even work if you download a source rpm (.src.rpm), rebuild
that with "rpm --rebuild /path/to/foobar.src.rpm" and install it.

> Am I on the right path or am I all wet?

I guess you missed the bridge...


HTH

Michael