John Horne wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> A quick question from a Linux newbie. I'm running RH 5.1 and was about to
> pick up the 5.4.44 version of libc. However, the source files seem to have
> the suffix of rh42 on them - e.g. libc-5.4.44-1rh42.src.rpm (I think). This,
> to me, looks like the RH 4.2 version - yes? I also noticed version of
> linuxconf in the RH5.1 sub-directory (I won't say which FTP site) which had
> the suffix of rh3 - e.g. linuxconf-1.11r11-rh3.i386.rpm. does this mean it's
> for RH3? I wouldn't have thought so, so could someone give me a nudge as to
> what the suffixes refer to, and more importantly I guess am I going to cause
> real problems if I stick on the lib/rh42 rpm on to my 5.1 system?
So you want libc-5.4.44 .... you can safely put the package on your RH
5.x system
with
#rpm -Uvh libc-5.4.44-1rh42.rpm --noscripts
I used the noscripts because it wanted to blow away my
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
directory. The I moved
/lib/libc.so.5.4.44
/lib/libm.so.5.0.9
to /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
and then made major numbered symobolic links to these files.
Nasty. I wish some made a RH 5x rpm of this package. Anyway I got
StarOffice working
and I'm happy.
-Eric Wood
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