RH 5.3 working with XFree86-libs
Nigel Wade
nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
Mon Mar 2 17:14:48 UTC 2009
Margaret Doll wrote:
> We have two RedHat 5.3 systems on which we need to install ENVI, a
> mapping graphics program.
>
> ENVI needs libXp.so.6 which is included in the old
>
>> XFree86-libs-4.3.0-128.EL.x86_64.rpm
>> XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-128.EL.x86_64.rpm
>
> packages.
>
> When we install these packages on the RH 5.3 systems, the console on the
> systems goes totally blank. On reboot we get a solid blue screen.
>
> We need a work around for the RH system or from ITT for ENVI.
>
> Thank you for any suggestions.
>
This is what I use for IDL (which is quite closely related to ENVI):
$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libXp.so.6
libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5
You should be able to install it with yum, provided you have a RHN license. Otherwise
build it from the source RPM.
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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
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