On 4/25/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> 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