It's this particular one I'm having the problem with. libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm. I used it once in the past and it worked fine. I even had saved it on a zip disk, but my zip drive died. I downloaded it from Caldera's site and did the same thing I did last time, but this time it didn't work. I get a error message. If I unpack it from software manager, it tells me it is already installed, which I don't think it could possibly be. I have re-installed 8.0 since the time it worked and besides that WP8 will not install, as it did the last time. The only libraries on my system that I am aware of, would be what comes stock with 8.0. If I unpack it from Package manager, it does nothing. No big deal though, the main reason I wanted it was to print envelopes, because I was having trouble getting Star Office to print them right. I have since figured out what I was doing wrong there, so this was actually a blessing. I learned something new in the process. Now there is no hurry to get WP to work so, if I do it's just iceing on the cake. Thanx for your concern, not only on this, but on the info about GNOME you gave me in the past. I am now running Ximian exclusively and not having any major problems. I am also planning to get the powerpack when 8.1 is released, so I'll probably wait until then to *monkey with it any more. *notice the Ximian influence? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >I did a quick search for "libc" at rpmfind.net and I found a number of Mandrake >and Mandrake Cooker packages. What is the problem? > >On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:17:21 -0400, "Charles A. Punch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:18:01 -0400, mcoady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>In my ongoing attempt to get Mandrake8 to accept an earlier version of WP8, >>>> >I > >>>tried to install the earlier library libc5 via rpm. >>> >>>>However I get the message: "file /etc/nsswitch.conf from install of >>>> >>>libc5-5.4.38-3 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.2-3.mdk >>> >>>>Does this not mean that the older library cannot coexist with a newer one? >>>> >>>Is the libc package a Mandrake 8.0 RPM? >>> >>I am having a similar problem. The only RPM I could find was a Caldera >>one. This is the same one that I used before and it worked fine. WhenI >>try to unpack it, I get an error message. I have since made many >>changes to my system, so I am thinking that it may be another conflict >>within my system and not a problem with the RPM itself. Just guessing. >> >>ShalomOut >> Chal >>Elder PCUSA >>Registered Linux user #217118 >> >> >> >>>If so, try this: >>> >>>1. Make a backup of /etc/nsswitch.conf >>>2. Install libc5 >>>3. Restore the old /etc/nsswitch.conf, in place of the new one >>>4. Install WP8. >>> >
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