Sorry to continue this theme but it raises many issues Yes, rpm -iU only uses the existing rpm data base but I did call for ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LD_FLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib and PKG_CONFIG_PATH=??? none of this or any combination worked the basic idea is SuSE 8.1 rejects my upgrade of libxml2-2.4.19 but it ACCEPTED an rpm itself at www.suse.com that is, the upgrade to libxml2-2.4.30. What I want is libxml2-2.5.8 (which I have the tar ball of and have compiled and 'make install.'). That is not available in the packages for 8.1 and THAT is because libxml =>2.5 needs GLIBC_2.3. But I got that, too (17 MB!), and installed it, supposedly. And I wrote BOTH in to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig (as root) Yes indeed, this is for ardour not scribus: but I just have installed freetype2-2.0.9 from the SuSE upgrade / bug fix site as an upgrade rpm and that FLEW OK.
BART ALBERTI bart at solozone.com
