On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 13:08 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
Instead of wrecking systems with random symlinks trying to meet compatible versions of things, why not do "yum provides filename" and see if it is available to you.
yum list "compat*" yeilds several packages that might be what you're looking for.
You learn something every day. I had never used that command. Thanks.
That yielded compat-libstdc++-296.i386.
Is that something you can install along side the other compat-libstdc++- X versions without any harm to the system?
Also, and I know this may be headed into "best practices territory" what is the preferred method? To install libraries you don't need because someone hard-coded a reference to a library or to just do the symlink. That's not meant to be rhetorical or flippant. I really am curious and not sure which approach is best practice.
Thanks for the tip either way, though.
Preston