On Tuesday 19 September 2006 08:11, James Wilkinson wrote: > linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote (about glib2): > > The one thing I forgot to do was to see if it is already > > installed and it is but when I try to install any one of more > > than a dozen apps they all complain that glib2 is missing and > > won't install. > > How were you installing them -- through RPM, binary tarballs, > or from source? As if you installed from source, you'd probably > need the glib2-devel package installed. -devel packages include > the headers necessary to compile other programs against the > main package -- they're not normally installed unless you > select the appropriate development groups on install. RPM > > Group : System Environment/Libraries > > Source : glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6.src.rpm > > Build Time : Wed Aug 30 09:34:15 2006 > > Install Time : Sun Sep 3 23:49:38 2006 > > License : LGPL > > > > Why would yum install a file for fc6 on fc5 ? > > It wouldn't. Not unless you'd enabled the development repo on > Sunday 3 September and upgraded. If you have, then potentially > most of your install is at a slightly-before-FC6-test-3 > state... oops! > If you really want a reliable system, then your only real > option is to reinstall FC5 -- downgrading is basically > untested. Otherwise, you could stay where you are, upgrade to > FC6-test-3, or re-enable the development repo and follow that. > Two warnings -- packages in the development repositories are > more likely to be buggy, and there are a lot more updates to > development (= yum uses a *lot* more bandwidth). > > When the FC6 release comes, you could reconfigure yum to follow > that. You still wouldn't have a "pure" FC6 install, but it > might be close enough for your purposes. How well I will just wait for FC6 and do a clean install since it is not to far from release. -- Jack Gates http://www.jlgates.com
