Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] GM 0.12 install problems

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Dan Nedelcu wrote:
> > When you "upgrade" (-U) openssl you remove the old version that other apps
> > depend on. That is why you have to also install the openssl096-0.9.6-6
> > backwards compat library. Just like I said. You probably need to specify
> > both rpms on the rpm command line at the same time.
> >
>
> When you have a version of a program installed and you try to install
> another (with -ivh) RH tell you some ugly words :)
> I have serious doubt that you can install 2 rpm files in the same command.

Installing/updating a lot of packages using the same rpm command works
just fine and has done so for quite some time (I remember using that
feature back in the RHL 5.1 days, which is several years ago). So your
doubt is certainly unwarranted, specifying multiple packages on the same
commandline works just fine.

What you shouldn't do is using the -i switch, and if I understood Alex
correctly, this isn't what he meant either. Using the -i switch to
parallell-install another version of the same already installed package
ususally only works for packages explicitly designed to work that that
way, like the kernel. Most packages don't work that way.

This is why you need both the backwards-compat openssl package and the
"current" openssl package installed when you need two versions of
openssl installed on the system at the same time. The reason this works
is that these are made different packages with different names (look
closely at the file names) and different contents with files with
different names and locations, so that these packages don't conflict and
can coexist at the same time. So, as Alex suggested, please try:

  rpm -Uvh openssl096-0.9.6-6.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.6b-8.i386.rpm

I haven't been able to try this myself on 7.1 however, since I don't
have any 7.1 boxes left.


Christian