Re: Newbee: Installing Enlightenment

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Elliot Lee wrote:

> > Fine. Grabbed the enlightenment 16.2 package as well as all of the
> > dependency packages I could identify, but I still have a few outstanding
> > unsatisfied dependencies that I was hoping someone could help me locate:
> > 1) libm.so.6(GLIB_2.1)
> > 2) libc.so.6(GLIB_2.1)
> > 3) libc.so.6(GLIB_2.0)
> > 4) libdl.so.2(GLIB_2.1)
> > 5) libdl.so.2(GLIB_2.0)
> > 
> > The above syntax is the format given to me via the Kpackage utility. Are
> > these items found in one package? Why would it indicate same named files
> > but with two different GLIB references? 
> 
> (These are symbol version tags.) It wants glibc 2.1.x, and you only have
> 2.0.x installed. I think Caldera 2.3 probably only has glibc 2.0.x.
> 
> If you have a GNOME-compatible window manager installed (the list
> currently includes "sawmill enlightenment icewm wmaker") then you should
> be able to ignore the enlightenment dependency in gnome-core. You can
> instead try to find an Enlightenment package for Caldera 2.3 - one may
> come with the distribution, or there might be one on the E site.

Or grab the source RPM from wherever you got that RPM, and do 
rpm --rebuild enlightenment.src.rpm 

That'll recompile the RPM from sources.  Unfortunately, you'll may
find that you are missing a fair few of the devel packages needed to do
that...

Paul