RH 5.3 working with XFree86-libs
Margaret Doll
Margaret_Doll at brown.edu
Mon Mar 2 18:13:33 UTC 2009
On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Nigel Wade wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks. I did not know about the --whatprovides option.
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> University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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