Upgrading

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Ben Ocean wrote:

> At 09:16 PM 9/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Verify that you have these packages and their -devel versions and then rebuild
> >Python 2.1.1 from:
> >
> >
> >ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/python2-2.1.1-2.src.rpm
>
> Does anyone have another d'l site that a person can actually access? I need
> these files to install python2.4:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
>          libcrypto.so.1   is needed by python2-2.1.1-3
>          libexpat.so.0   is needed by python2-2.1.1-3
>          libgmp.so.3   is needed by python2-2.1.1-3
>          libncurses.so.5   is needed by python2-2.1.1-3
>          libpanel.so.5   is needed by python2-2.1.1-3
>          libreadline.so.4.1   is needed by python2-2.1.1-3
>          libssl.so.1   is needed by python2-2.1.1-3
>
> TIA,
> BenO

Verify that you have the packages listed in my response.

You can't just grab the RPMs that contain those files; they will have their
own dependencies. You need to do this step by step or you will end up beating
your head against the wall.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>