On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Hodges wrote: > A quick question for you all.. > > The other day there was a thread on this list about firefox rpms, so I > decided I would download and install the rpm. Predictably, it told me that > firefox required desktop-files (or something similar) and libstdc++.s0.6. > The first file desktop-whatever was part of the Fedora development tree, so > I downloaded that as well, and finally grabbed libstdc++34*rpm (since I had > libstdc++.so.5 currently on my system). What surprised me is this; I tried > to upgrade the libstdc++ package using 'rpm -Uvh libstdc++34*' and it spit > out over a page worth of packages that depend upon libstdc++.so.5. The > question, then, is would a newer version of the same package not also > satisfy these dependencies? If so, why was I not able to install using -U? > > Cheers, > John libstdc++34 is designed to live side by side with libstdc++. Install with "rpm -ivh ...". -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
