On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 21:50, Nat Gross wrote:
But in the list below, the last listing, it does show 'installed'.
Indeed it does. I overlooked that.
xorg-x11-libs.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.25 installed Matched from: /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXmu.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXmu.so.6.2 libXmu.so.6()(64bit)
You need to figure out if you need the i386 version or the x86_64 version.
Ahem. And how do I figure that out? Is there some rule of thumb? Why wouldn't I always want the 64 version?
Well, now we get back to why you were trying to install this lib in the first place.
The IBM DB2 setup program would not run because it couldn't find "libXmu.so.6". I hope db2 is not poorly written! Furthermore, this is a 64 bit version from IBM!
It's kinda hard to ask them to help on this because the classical answer "RHEL is the official distro". On another *32* bit server running Fedora, I received this answer, but I finally got it to work on Fedora (4 and 5), until *they asked me* to document it as to how I got it running! AND [non-ibm] folks over on the ibm db2 list advised that with Centos I wouldn't have any problems at all. So, I get this bran new dual core 64 bit server, and I say, ok this time; clean machine, let's go Centos. <sigh> here I am.
Since you have the 64bit package installed, and you felt the need to try to install it again anyway, you've either got poorly written source code that doesn't know enough to look for the 64bit libs, or you have a binary application, game or other such distraction that wants the 32bit lib for a reason. Not everything is 64bit compliant yet so sometimes you need the 32bit libs.
Looking forward to document how I got it running on Centos<g>; nat
If it does want the 32-bit version it shouldn't hurt anything to install it with: yum install xorg-x11-libs.i386 I needed that for VMware server recently and posted here about a conflict with fontconfig from the 64-bit version. I think that's a bug but someone responded with a workaround: rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig You might also need glibc.i686.