On 20-May-98 George Lenzer wrote:
> I was poking around on the net and found an RPM repository. Since I was after
> Enlightenment, I noticed they had an RPM of it along with a list of other
> needed RPMs. A lot of the required libs had names like 'glibc.so.0" etc...
> But, when I went to get the RPM, the filename didn't contain the .so
> designation. I assumed that I should just grab the latest copy of each
> library. Is this a good policy, or can it cause problems due to
> incompatibilities between libraries? What is the best way to predict which
> libraries shooed be used with each other? And finally, what is 'so.'?
Generally, yes. But always use the RPMs that are on the RH site if possible.
In other words, maintain the same version of the libs that come with RH by
default. Especially system binaries such as libc.
Dave
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