RES: glib2 missing
linuxmaillists at charter.net
linuxmaillists at charter.net
Tue Sep 19 15:50:42 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 08:11, James Wilkinson wrote:
> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote (about glib2):
> > The one thing I forgot to do was to see if it is already
> > installed and it is but when I try to install any one of more
> > than a dozen apps they all complain that glib2 is missing and
> > won't install.
>
> How were you installing them -- through RPM, binary tarballs,
> or from source? As if you installed from source, you'd probably
> need the glib2-devel package installed. -devel packages include
> the headers necessary to compile other programs against the
> main package -- they're not normally installed unless you
> select the appropriate development groups on install.
RPM
> > Group : System Environment/Libraries
> > Source : glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6.src.rpm
> > Build Time : Wed Aug 30 09:34:15 2006
> > Install Time : Sun Sep 3 23:49:38 2006
> > License : LGPL
> >
> > Why would yum install a file for fc6 on fc5 ?
>
> It wouldn't. Not unless you'd enabled the development repo on
> Sunday 3 September and upgraded. If you have, then potentially
> most of your install is at a slightly-before-FC6-test-3
> state...
oops!
> If you really want a reliable system, then your only real
> option is to reinstall FC5 -- downgrading is basically
> untested. Otherwise, you could stay where you are, upgrade to
> FC6-test-3, or re-enable the development repo and follow that.
> Two warnings -- packages in the development repositories are
> more likely to be buggy, and there are a lot more updates to
> development (= yum uses a *lot* more bandwidth).
>
> When the FC6 release comes, you could reconfigure yum to follow
> that. You still wouldn't have a "pure" FC6 install, but it
> might be close enough for your purposes.
How well I will just wait for FC6 and do a clean install since it
is not to far from release.
--
Jack Gates http://www.jlgates.com
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