Compilation error with freeglut

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, A K Arun wrote:

> Thanks George.
> RHEL 5 has freeglut-2.4.0-7.1.el5.i386.rpm coming with it and no development
> package. I tried to install freeglut-devel-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm (I couldn't find
> a development package with a higher version i.e. something compatible with
> freeglut-2.4) but I get a message that it depends on freeglut-2.2.0. So I
> removed freeglut-2.4 from my laptop and  tried to
> install freeglut-2.2.0-1.i386.rpm. Now it says that it needs
> libGl.so.1(LIBGL).
>
> I don't know what to do ? Did I break something by removing freeglut-2.4 ?

This is what you should have:

[dag at rhun ~]# rpm -q freeglut freeglut-devel
freeglut-2.4.0-7.1.el5
freeglut-devel-2.4.0-7.1.el5

Please stick tothe packages that come with your distribution version if 
you want to stay away from "bricolage". RHEL5 _does_ come with both.

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