RH 5.3 working with XFree86-libs

[Nigel Wade]

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
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