On Friday 07 April 2006 12:08, Christopher Linn wrote: >i am installaing amanda on a RHEL4 workstation. when using >amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm from the zmanda site, >it fails with: > >error: Failed dependencies: > tar >= 1.15 is needed by > amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386 > >yet when i have searched for a tar >= 1.15 rpm i have only found rpms >for RHEL4 going up through tar-1.14-9.RHEL4.src.rpm (this on rpmfind).
I'm told that the 1.14 versions from RH, if fresh, have the backported patches that fixed 1.14 so it worked. I think I'd make a softlink & see if it works. >>= 1.15 rpms are only available for SuSE, Mandriva, Fedora and >> Mandrake. > >is it possible to use an rpm from one of these other distros? what do >other folks do about this? > >thanks, > >chris -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
