Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@cela.pl> wrote:

To fix, just download the original glib2.rpm (from the CD/DVD? or from
the net) and install via
rpm --oldpackage -hvU glib2.....rpm
this will likely fix things for you...
as to how to keep both packages installed - no idea...

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Jean Lee wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem :).
>
> On my CentOS workstation, I had glib2-2.4.7-1 installed.
> This is the last version which is provided by the CentOS distribution
> However, I need to install a software which requires an higher glib2 version
> so :
>
> I took the source of glib2-2.8.4-1 on the gtk+ web site and creates the rpm
> installation file with "chkinstall"
> I obtained the glib2-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm file
> Then I execute yum to update the glib2 package :
>
> yum localupdate glib2-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm
>
> And know, I have a lot of problems. Surely because some library files where
> overwritten with the newer version files (Right or wrong ?)....
>
> Is there a way to recover the problem ? (Now, I can't launch a terminal under
> gnome)
>
> Well, I have broken the distribution and I feel that I will have to reinstall
> it.
>
> For the next time that I will try to update a package manually :
> Is there a safe way to update manually the glib2 library without crashing all
> the distribution ?
> Or is there a way to install the latest version of glib2 in order to have the
> two libraries versions installed (glib2-2.4.7-1 and glib2-2.8.4-1)?
> or something else ?????
>
> Thank you for your answers,
>
> Jean LEE
>
>
>
>
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Hello,

I thought there was a way to have separate packages like this on one machine. IIRC you told rpm to place all files in a specific place and then run you install your package to use that library. I can not remember the specifics about how to do this since this was back in 1999 that i remember reading/doing this. I might be totally wrong with this. if anyone remembers this trick, because i dont have the instructions or any idea where to look for this.