How do I get Pine to install on FC1?

Tim Sheets tsheets at insightbb.com
Sat Nov 15 04:01:34 UTC 2003


> On Friday 14 November 2003 6:54 pm, Tim Sheets wrote:
> 
>>I have been playing with FC1 (fresh install) and tried to install Pine.
>>  Of course, I first looked on the install CDs, not there.....  So, I
>>tried what I thought was the next best thing, grab the RH9 RPM.  This
>>complained about dependancy errors on libcom_err.so.3, so I tried making
>>a symlink to the version that FC1 installed.  Maybe I didn't put it in
>>the correct location, but I couldn't get it to work.

Rich Stanford wrote:

 > I also like to use pine.  I got the same dependency error, I just
 > cheated....created a symlink to an older library:
 >
 > ln -s /lib/libcom_err.so.2.1 /lib/libcom_err.so.3
 >
 > Pine works fine....
 >
 > Rich
 >

I tried exactly this, Rich, but it still wouldn't install.  Still 
complained that it wanted the libcom_err.so.3 library.

Anyway, I grabbed an RPM suggested by a couple others on the list and 
have it up and running.

Thanks for the response!

Tim





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