Sometimes you'll find that a library it says is missing is looking for a particular symbolic link (so the lib isn't missing, just the name it is looking for). I run into these problems occassionally, and I believe I did so with some MySQL products. Point being use ln to make the correct symbolic link (thus file name) and point it to your library. One thing to remember, make sure the library is the correct version.
Wade -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Morse Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Abiword 2.0.aaarrrrrghghghhghgh On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > > Let's see: I see a report on slashdot that abiword 2.0 was released. > > I went > > where that pointed, and it had the SuSE, the gnome, and the gtk versions of > > the release. I *presume* that they all use and need the same libraries, yet > > each one finds *different* libraries missing, and most of those libraries > > are, in fact, installed on my system. > > If you want to install an rpm for a different Linux distribution or > even a different RedHat release (or rawhide) the safest way is to > download the src rpm and rebuild: > > rpmbuild --rebuild ......src.rpm > > That will link with the libraries installed on your system and (if the > rpm spec file is done correctly) will also adjust paths appropriately > for your system. > > Still no guarantee that will work but it can solve some of the obvious > problems. Just a note on the above. I got interested in Mark's plight and took a look at getting abiword running on RH7.3, using the "rpmbuild -rebuild *.src.rpm" from rawhide. The dependency list for this task is still quite huge and found that many of the support devel rpm's were too old to work and would themselves require upgrading (download, rpmbuild, install, etc....). A daunting task in anybody's book. I wish I had the time to complete this project, but too many other "important" things demand my time. So far the quickest and easiest way I've found to get the new version of abiword to run, is to download the newest Knoppix iso (I have 3.2) and run it from the resulting Knoppix CD. Not optimal, but doable. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
